Purpose of the list
Sometimes the Lords generate an amendment list where the normal rules for selecting amendments do not apply. The Manuscript List is one example of such a list. It contains amendments that were tabled after the deadline (usually on the day of debate) but are deemed admissible nonetheless. The legislation office will create a Marshalled List that contains this “manuscript” amendment (usually the list consists of just one amendment).
A Manuscript List closely resembles a Marshalled List, but contains fewer amendments.
Content
Manuscript Lists are created by manually selecting amendments in Lawmaker and generating a Manuscript List from them. Therefore the contents of the list are determined by users, rather than by any amendment filtering logic.
Ordering
Amendments are sorted by the (user-defined) Order of Consideration.
If no Order of Consideration is defined, the following default order is used:
Amendments to Clauses 1 to the end, of type "insert", "leaveOut", "substitute", "move", or "divide";
Amendments to Schedules 1 to the end, of type "insert", "leaveOut", "substitute", "move", or "divide";
Amendments to the Preamble;
Amendments to the Long title.
Format and Numbering
The format of the list is identical to a Marshalled List.
Note on Numbering
When you generate a Lords Marshalled List in Lawmaker, each of the previously un-published amendments will be assigned a number according to the numbering logic described below. If there are some previously published amendments they will retain the number they have been assigned.
As a result, there is a need to add suffixes to amendment numbers where they appear between already-published amendments. The table below describes the numbering algorithm. In the table:
prevNum is the number of the previous amendment in the list
nextNum is the number of the next amendment that has already been published in the list
newNum is the number to be applied to the amendment being assigned a number
"increment of prevNum" means
if prevNum ends in a numeric value, increase the numeric component by 1, e.g. from "19" to "20" or from "A1" to "A2"
if prevNum ends in a letter, increment last letter to next letter, e.g. from "1A" to "1B" or from "13ZZF" to "13ZZG"
Amendment position | Numbering logic |
|---|---|
amendment is the first in the list | If nextNum is 1 then newNum = "A1" |
amendment is in the middle of the list | if nextNum = increment of prevNum then newNum = prevNum + "A" (e.g. between 3BF and 3BG is 3BFA) |
amendment is at the end of the list | newNum = increment of prevNum |