Applying Amendments

To create an as-amended version of a Bill you can do either of the following (or a combination of both):

• use the auto-apply feature to automatically apply amendments to a new Bill version, or

• manually apply amendments to a new Bill version,

Auto-applying amendments

Users can generate a copy of a Bill with any amendments they choose applied to it (regardless of the status of the amendment or whether the amendment is an inline amendment or traditionally drafted amendment).   All successfully applied amendments will appear marked up in the bill version with a corresponding 'inline amendment card' in the "Inline Amendments" right-hand panel in the Editor. In the document itself, the applied amendments will show up as tracked changes. In the event that an amendment cannot be applied e.g. the page/line information is incorrect or it overlaps with another applied amendment, it will be listed separately on the "Review" right-hand panel in the Editor with a brief description explaining why.  Handling amendments in this way means that you will know exactly which amendments out of a batch were applied and which were not.  

For the first iteration of auto-apply amendment functionality, we focused on the 3 main types of amendment:

• Insert (including inserting new clauses/sections and schedules)

• Leave out, and

• Substitute (e.g. leave out X and insert Y).

See Auto-application of amendments to a Bill version for more detail.

Accepting auto-applied amendments

Once amendments have been applied to a bill using the 'Apply Amendments' feature, a clean version of the Bill can be created using the 'Accept All' button on the "Inline Amendments" right-hand panel in the Editor. 

An 'as amended' version of the bill can be constructed from both automatically and manually applied amendments and you can make 'silent' printing changes as required around these applied amendments as you currently do.

See Accepting all applied amendments in a bill version.

Manually applying amendments

You can also continue to apply amendments manually, for example any amendment that couldn't be applied using the auto-application feature, and these can be accepted using the usual 'accept'/'reject' buttons on the 'Review' right-hand panel, if applied in tracked change mode.

See Manually applying amendments for more help.

Cross-references in applied amendments

If an amendment contains a cross reference to a provision in another amendment, or to a provision in the bill being amended, then the system should be able to resolve this cross reference when you paste in the amendment content.

If a cross reference didn't update as expected, check that the target provision exists in the document where the amendment content was pasted and try running Update x-refs again - see Cross-references (x-refs) | Updating existing cross referencesarchived