Cases where you may need to adjust the indent level of a quoted structure or use adjacent quoted structures

This page provides more detail on how to use the quoted structure features in certain particular cases. For general help with quoted structures, see Quoted structures.

Inserting wide tables or images into a quoted structure

Using the Indent level dropdown menu in the quoted structure dialogue box, you can select Indent level -1 which will present the contents of the quoted structure set to full page width, i.e. exactly as they would normally appear and without any global additional indent.

This can be useful if your quoted structure is to contain something like a wide table and you need the full page width to display it.

Inserting a schedule which consists of a quoted structure and nothing else

Indent level -1 can also be used when you want to create a schedule that consists solely of inserted content, e.g. if you want to create an SI with a schedule which contains an annex to some European legislation. In that case, the normal indention is superfluous so you may want to present schedule content without any indentation.

Inserting a quoted structure when the context being amended is itself within a textual amendment

Where the provision being amended is itself within a textual amendment in a Bill or SI (i.e. within a quoted structure) then you will need to use Indent level 1 to reflect the additional indentation that will be required. This will result in everything in the quoted structure being indented by twice as much as a normal quoted structure. Where the provision being amended within a nested quoted structure then you would use Indent level 2.

Inserting paragraphs and other provisions that have relative indent in a context where the paragraph etc. is not in its default position

Most provisions (e.g. sections, subsections, regulations) have a fixed indent when they appear in a document outside a quoted structure. However, some provisions have an indent relative to their parent provision because they can appear in a number of different contexts.

The provisions that have a relative indent are:

• paragraph (a)

• sub-paragraph (i)

• sub-sub-paragraph (A)/(aa)

• definition

• step

• closing words

When one of these provisions is selected as the starting provision in a quoted structure, its indentation will be based on its default position, i.e. as if it were being inserted as a child of a section in a Bill or a regulation/article/rule in an SI.

However, if the provision is actually to be inserted as a child of another provision then you can use the Indent level of a quoted structure to ensure the provision is correctly presented.

For example:

• If you were inserting a paragraph as a child of a definition or a step then you would use Indent level 1 (because it is one level further down the hierarchy than the default, e.g. section>definition>paragraph rather than section>paragraph).

• If you were inserting closing words of a sub-sub-paragraph then you would use Indent level 3 (because it is three levels further down the hierarchy).

Inserting a quoted structure where the first provision is lower in the hierarchy than subsequent provisions

Sometimes textual amendments and parliamentary amendments begin with a provision which is lower in the hierarchy (e.g. a paragraph) and then continue with provisions which are higher in the hierarchy (e.g. subsections). For example:

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In Lawmaker, a single quoted structure must start with the highest level provision in that structure. So, to achieve a structure like the one above, you need to use two quoted structures back-to-back.

Lawmaker provides a feature to help with this - with your cursor in the first quoted structure, right-click and select Insert adjacent quoted structure. - that will enable you to create a quoted structure after the existing one rather than inside it. The quoted structure dialogue box will be shown where you can select the higher level provision to insert. The document type field isn’t enabled because the type must be the same as the previous quoted structure. And any following text of the original quoted structure is moved across to the new one.

In most cases you’ll need to use the quoted structure dialogue box to adjust the quote marks in both the first and second quoted structures so that the first only has an opening quote mark and the second only has a closing quote mark.