Generating the Reasons Document

The Reasons Document is not a document that needs publishing in Lawmaker. It is prepared for the Reasons Committee and OPC will need to draft the Reason Motions (in the same way they would draft ping pong motions, using the Amendment Workspace tab) and then submit them. The Commons will then need to table and set them ‘Ready for Publishing’ in order for them to appear on the generated Commons Reasons Document

Pre-requisites

• OPC have submitted the Government’s reason motion(s) in Lawmaker

• Commons have tabled and set them “Ready for Publishing”

How to generate a Commons Reasons Document

1. Create a list by:

   1. From the Amendment Manager tab: select Amendment Actions > Create Official List from the dropdown menu in the top right of the page

   2. From the Official List tab: click on the Create List button

2. Select Commons Reasons Document

3. Update the relevant information in the dialog box (make sure you select ‘Ping Pong’ as the stage) and click on Create

4. A new tab opens with the appropriate document template loaded in the Editor with an empty List Body element

5. Select Tools > Update List from the upper tool bar to populate the document with all reason motions with a status of Ready for Publishing

6. Update the preface of the document with any necessary text

7. Generate a PDF ready for the Reasons Committee.