Training module: drafting amendments inline

Introduction

Inline amendments

Exercises

Getting Started

Before you can create inline amendments, you will need a published version of the bill. For these exercises, create a project containing a published version of the following Bill:
The following steps will allow you to create the data required for this exercise.

Exercise 1: Creating textual amendments (leave out, insert and substitute)

This exercise takes you through the process of creating different kinds of amendments inline.

Step 1: Create an inline LoDA

Inline amendments are made within an inline List of Draft Amendments (or “inline LoDA”).

Start by creating a new inline LoDA called Textual amendments for the As Introduced version of the Bill at Consideration Stage. See Creating a List of Draft Amendments (LoDA) .

Step 2: Create some ‘insert' text amendments

In Section 2, within Article 44A, create the following insert text amendments.

Open

Step 3: View traditional amendments corresponding to the inline amendments

Every time you save an inline LoDA, Lawmaker updates an associated list containing the traditional form of the amendments in the inline LoDA.

View the traditional amendments and check they match what you were expecting. See Viewing traditional amendments.

Expected outcome of steps 1-3

Type of amendment	Traditional amendment

Type of amendment	Traditional amendment
Example of an amendment with ordinality	Open
Example of inserting text at the start of a provision
Example of inserting text immediately before punctuation (before the ending full-stop)

Step 4: Create some Leave Out text amendments

In Section 3 create the following leave out text amendments:

Save your changes and then view the traditional amendments to check they match what you were expecting (click View Traditional Amendments in the Inline Amendments Tool panel).

Expected output of step 4

Step 5: Create some Substitute text amendments

In Section 4, create the following substitute text amendments.

Save your changes and view the traditional amendments to check they match what you were expecting (click on View traditional amendments button to see the new substitute amendments).

Expected output of step 5

Exercise 2: Creating structural amendments (leave out, insert and substitute)

This exercise takes you through the process of creating different kinds of amendments inline.

Step1: Create an inline LoDA

Start by creating a new inline LoDA called Structural amendments for the As Introduced version of the Bill at Consideration Stage. See Creating a List of Draft Amendments (LoDA) .

Step 2: Create some ‘insert' structure amendments

In and around Section 8, create the following insert amendments.

Inserting a subsection after the first subsection

Inserting a new section before section 8

Inserting a new section after section 8

Inserting a new section after section 9 that is contained within a cross heading

Inserting a new subsection with child paragraphs in section 7

Save your changes and then view the traditional amendments to check they match what you were expecting (click View Traditional Amendments in the Inline Amendments Tool panel).

Expected output from steps 1-2

Step 3: Create some ‘leave out' structure amendments

In Sections 10 to 12, create the following leave out amendments.

Leave out subsection (3)(b) which will include the child quoted structure

Leave out Subsection (5) which will include the children paragraphs

Leave out section 11

Leave out paragraph (c) inside a quoted structure

Save your changes and then view the traditional amendments to check they match what you were expecting (click View Traditional Amendments in the Inline Amendments Tool panel).

Expected output for step 3

Step 4: Create some ‘Substitute' structure amendments

In Section 13, create the following leave out amendments.

Save your changes and then view the traditional amendments to check they match what you were expecting (click View Traditional Amendments in the Inline Amendments Tool panel).

Expected output with brief explanation of the type of amendment created

Exercise 3: Creating hybrid amendments (part textual and part structural in composition)

This exercise takes you through the process of creating different kinds of amendments inline.

Step 1: Create an inline LoDA

Start by creating a new inline LoDA called Hybrid amendments for the As Introduced version of the Bill at Consideration Stage. See Creating a List of Draft Amendments (LoDA) .

Step 2: Create some ‘insert' hybrid amendments

In Section 23, create the following insert amendments.

Save your changes and then view the traditional amendments to check they match what you were expecting (click View Traditional Amendments in the Inline Amendments Tool panel).

Expected output for steps 1-2

Step 2: Create some ‘leave out' hybrid amendments

In Section 25, create the following insert amendments.

Save your changes and then view the traditional amendments to check they match what you were expecting (click View Traditional Amendments in the Inline Amendments Tool panel).

Expected output for step 3

Step 3: Create some substitute hybrid amendments

In section 26, create the following inline amendments

Save your changes and then view the traditional amendments to check they match what you were expecting (click View Traditional Amendments in the Inline Amendments Tool panel).

Expected output of step 4

Exercise 4: Creating amendments involving cross references

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1. On the Amendment Workspace tab, click on the +New button

2. In the Create new list of draft amendments dialog box—

   1. Type of amendment - select Inline

   2. Bill version can be left as As Introduced

   3. Select Consideration Stage for Stage

   4. Add a unique list name e.g. cross references in amendments

   5. Click on the Create button

   6. The inline document will open in the Editor in a new browser tab

   7. Set your renumbering mode to “Off” if you haven’t already by selecting Tools > Turn on/off renumbering until the green success message says Auto Renumbering: OFF

3. Amend Section 36(1)(b) by changing the cross reference ‘section 33’ to ‘section 34’—

   1. Highlight the '3’ within section 33

   2. The hovering tool bar will not appear as you are modifying a cross reference and instead it presents the cross reference hovering tool bar

   3. Circumvent this by opening the Inline Amendment Tools and selecting Substitute

   4. Lawmaker will not let you change part of a cross reference so it automatically highlights the whole cross reference to strike out so you will need to recreate the whole cross reference by typing Section 34 into the empty ‘text’ placeholder

4. Save your changes

5. Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel

6. Click on the View Traditional Amendments button

   1. A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab

   2. your new amendment is displayed

7. Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button

3. In the Structure View of the inline document, right-click on section 34 and select Select reference to copy > section 34

4. In section 36(1)(b), delete section 34 text using backspace

5. Check the breadcrumb to ensure that your cursor is in ‘Insert text’ and use keyboard shortcut CTRL+V to paste the cross reference you just copied from the structure view—

   1. the text Section 34 will appear

   2. it will be coloured purple to indicate that it is a valid internal cross reference

6. Save your changes

7. Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel

8. Click on the View Traditional Amendments button

   1. A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab

   2. your new amendment is displayed

9. Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button

10. Amend Section 36(1)(c) by attempting to change the cross reference to subsection (2) to (3)—

    1. Highlight the '2’ within subsection (2)

    2. The hovering tool bar will not appear as you are modifying a cross reference and instead it presents the cross reference hovering tool bar

    3. Circumvent this by opening the Inline Amendment Tools and selecting Substitute

    4. Lawmaker will not let you change part of a cross reference so it automatically highlights the whole cross reference to strike out. In this case, the cross reference covers the range (2) to (6) so you will need to type in the full cross reference section 34(3) to (6)

11. Save your changes

12. Open the Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel

13. Click on the View Traditional Amendments button

    1. A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab

    2. your new amendment is displayed

14. Close the traditional list of draft amendments using the Close Editor button

Adding proposers and supporters

1. From the Amendment Manager, select the inline document called cross references in amendments and open it in the Editor

2. In the Editor, view the Inline Amendment Tools right-hand panel

3. Click on the Manage Members button and in the Manage proposers and supporters dialog box—

   1. Add a proposer name (select between a Member’s chair title, ministerial title or just their name depending on the capacity in which they are laying the amendment)

   2. Optionally add one or more supporter’s names

   3. Click on the Update button

4. Save your changes

5. Click on the View Traditional Amendments button

   1. A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab

   2. your new amendment is displayed with the assigned proposer and any supporters

6. Click on the proposer for any amendment in your traditional list of draft amendments and the Manage proposers and supporters dialog box will open—

   1. Change the proposer name, and

   2. Add one or more supporters to your amendment

   3. Click on Update button

7. Save your changes and see how that amendment is the only amendment that is updated with the new Member information.

8. To update proposers and/or supporters in more than one amendment at the same time select Tools > Update Members… from the upper toolbar—

   1. Select a subset of amendments to update (defaults to All)

   2. Select Replace proposer with the selected member

   3. Type a proposer’s name into the Member(s) input field

   4. Click on the Update button

9. Have a play with the other bulk options and save your changes when you’ve finished updating your list of draft amendments.

10. Close the traditional amendment list by selecting the Close Editor button

Making tweaks to the traditional amendment

1. From the Amendment Manager, select the inline document called Structural amendments and open it in the Editor

2. In the Inline Amendment Tools right-hand panel, click on the View Traditional Amendments button

3. In the traditional list, find a new clause amendment and add NEW TEXT to the section heading in the quoted structure.

4. Save your changes, make a note of its DNumber and close the traditional list using the Close Editor button.

5. In the inline document, view the Inline Amendments right-hand panel and find the amendment that you just updated using the DNumber that you noted down in the step before and see a black warning triangle appears next to the amendment

6. Click on the amendment card to jump to the inline amendment in your inline document and note that the inline amendment doesn’t show NEW TEXT in the heading because traditional amendments do not backwards synchronise with their inline equivalents.

7. Attempt to add some text to the amendment and you will see a yellow warning message appear letting you know that it’s not possible to make changes due to the out-of-sync warning marker

8. In the Inline Amendment right-hand panel, click on the black warning triangle and a Remove out-of-sync warning marker dialog box appears—

   1. This warning lets you know that the traditional version of this amendment has been updated,

   2. If you make a change to the inline version of the amendment, it would overwrite your traditional version so the warning prevents you making any changes and unwittingly overwriting your traditional version

   3. Click on the Remove button

9. Add DIFFERENT TEXT to the header of the same new clause amendment. This time you will be able to.

10. Save your changes

11. In the Inline Amendment Tools right-hand panel, click on the View Traditional Amendments button

12. In the traditional list, see that the text DIFFERENT TEXT now appears in the heading of the new clause amendment and it has overridden the changes you previously made.

13. Close the traditional list using the Close Editor button

14. Close the inline document using the Close Editor button

Removing amendments from the inline document

1. From the Amendment Manager, select the inline document called Textual amendments and open it in the Editor

2. In the Inline Amendment Tools right-hand panel, click on the View Traditional Amendments button

3. In the inline document, open the Inline Amendments right-hand panel and select any amendment, noting down its DNumber

4. Delete this amendment by clicking on the cross in the bottom right of the amendment card and wait for the amendment to be removed

5. Save your changes

6. View the traditional list in the Editor and find the amendment using the DNumber that you deleted in the inline document.

7. Refresh the browser tab with the traditional list (F5 will refresh the page) and when it reloads, you should see that amendment has been removed