Training Module: Drafting traditional amendments

1 Introduction
2 Exercises

Introduction

Inserting/deleting amendments or interstitial headings

Managing proposers and supporters

Bulk update of proposers and supporters

Inserting an amendment note

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Managing amendment information

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Exercises

Getting Started

Before you start this exercise, you will need a published 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.

Download the XML document for the exercise by clicking on the link you’ve been provided with. By default, the downloaded file is usually placed in the “downloads” folder on your computer.
Log in to Lawmaker.
From the Dashboard, create a new project of the type you need for the exercise. Give it a title such as “[Your Initials] [Name of module]”. (See Creating a new project.)
From the Project tab for that project, select Document Actions > Upload document, and select the XML file for the exercise which you have downloaded. It can be uploaded into the default folder that has been created in the project. (See https://lawmaker.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USERMANUAL/pages/688419.)
On the newly uploaded document version, select Actions > Update Document Information and update the Title to match the title you originally gave the project.
On the uploaded document version, select Actions > Generate PDF to generate a PDF selecting line numbers. (See: Generating and viewing a PDF.)
Select Actions > Publish version on the PDF snapshot version. (See Publishing a Bill document version.)

Exercise 1: Drafting amendments in a List of Draft Amendments (LoDA)

This exercise will show you have to create a traditional List of Draft Amendments (LoDA) to start drafting traditional style amendments in.

Step 1: Create a traditional LoDA

From Amendment Workspace tab, create a new traditional LoDA

On the Amendment Workspace tab, click on the +New button in the top right and select Traditional as the type of amendment and supplying the bill version, Consideration Stage and calling the list Extension of permitted hours
When the list loads, type Extension of permitted hours into the Subtitle at the top of the list (this is an optional field, you don’t have to use it)

Step 2: Insert a new clause amendment

The insert menu in a traditional LoDA gives you various pre-populated amendment options, including New Clause amendments. Recreate the following new clause amendment—

Place your cursor in the List Body element and click on Enter to view the insert menu
Select New Clause amendment
In the instruction element insert After clause 1
In the empty clause in the quoted structure, add the heading Removal of restrictions on late opening for on-sales on Sunday
Type 1A. into the num (click on the left side of the num element if you’re finding it hard typing into it) and lock its num (Right-click > Lock/Unlock Number)
Type In Article 30 of the Licensing Order (occasional licences), in paragraph (1)(c), for paragraphs (ii) and (iii) substitute— into the empty Text element
Click enter and select Quoted Structure, selecting Northern Ireland Order in Council and sub-paragraph (i) leaving other selections and adding a full-stop in the following text.
To insert the following subsection, make sure your cursor is outside of the nested Quoted structure (but still in the overall quoted structure of the amendment and click Enter and Subsection (1) can be selected
Continue inserting the remaining provision and text

Step 3: Insert a page-line (insert structure) amendment

The insert menu in a traditional LoDA gives you various pre-populated amendment options, including page-line amendments. Recreate the following page-line amendment with structure—

Place your cursor in the first amendment’s instruction and click Enter to select page-line insert structure amendment
In the instruction element tweak the placeholder text so that it reads Clause 1, Page 1, Line 9
At the end of the instruction, delete the em-dash and add the text ', or
The default starting element is a subsection. In this case we need a paragraph. Place your cursor in the empty Text element and select Subsection from the breadcrumb to delete it leaving behind the Quotedstructure element
With your cursor in the Quotedstructure element, click Enter and select paragraph (a)
The paragraph’s num element is empty but contains the parentheses. You will need to lock the number to prevent it from being changed (right-click > Lock/Unlock Number) and type in c
Continue inserting the remaining provisions and text
The start quote for this amendment started in the instruction so update the Quoted Structure properties (right-click > Update Quoted Structure Properties) and change the start quote to None

Step 4: Insert a stand part motion

The insert menu in a traditional LoDA gives you various pre-populated amendment options, including stand part motions. Recreate the following stand part motion—

Place your cursor in the last amendment’s instruction and click Enter to select Stand part motion
In the instruction element tweak the pre-populated rubric to read The Minister gives notice of his intention to oppose the question that clause 12 stand part of the Bill.

Step 5: Insert an amendment to an amendment

The insert menu in a traditional LoDA gives you various pre-populated amendment options, including amendment to amendment. Recreate the following 2 x amendments to amendments—

Step 6: Update location information for the amendment to an amendments

Location information is used by Lawmaker to automatically sort amendments in the official lists. In most amendments, the location and instruction elements contain enough information for Lawmaker to parse and auto-populate the location information. Amendments to amendments often don’t contain enough context so the location information must be manually populated.

Update the location table for the second amendment to amendment as follows—

Exercise 2: Managing proposers and supporters

This exercise will how you how to update proposers and supporters against your amendments.

Step 1: Update the proposer on an individual amendment

To update the proposer and/or amendment on a single amendment, click on the blue Proposer element

Step 2: Bulk update proposers and supporters

If you want to update all or a subset of amendments in one go, use the bulk update option

Exercise 3: Creating amendments with cross references

It’s possible to create cross references within the quoted structure of amendments to provisions within the published bill or to other provisions within the quoted structure or other amendments' quoted structures.

Step 1: Create a cross reference to a provision in the bill

We will create a cross reference to section 13 and put it into the amendment to Clause 1, Page 1, Line 9.

Recreate the following cross reference in the amendment—

Step 2: Create a cross reference to a provision in a new clause amendment

We will create a cross reference to subsection (3) in the new clause amendment.

Recreate the following cross reference in the amendment—

Exercise 4: Copying and pasting amendments

It’s possible to create new amendments by copying and pasting them into your LoDA which can be useful when you have lots of similar amendments to draft. If you paste an amendment into a different LoDA where it doesn’t already appear, it will create a new instance of the same amendment rather than create a copy. This can be useful when you want to create different lists containing the same amendment.

Step 1: Copy and paste an amendment in the same LoDA

Create a copy of the amendment to Clause 1, Page 1, Line 9

Step 2: Copy and paste an amendment in a different LoDA