Inserting UK Bill and Act front and back covers

• A front cover and table of contents will be inserted at the beginning of the document. Any existing cover and table of contents will be replaced.

• The cover inserted will depend on whether the document is a Bill or an Act.

  • In a Bill: the front cover will include the Note element by default. To insert additional statements (e.g. Environmental statement) select Statement from the insert menu

  • In an Act: the image of the crest will be rendered in the PDF but does not appear in the Editor.

• A back cover will be inserted at the end of the document. Any existing cover will be replaced.

• The contents of the back cover are derived from other parts of the Bill and details entered into the Document Information panel:

  • The Long Title is derived from the Long Title in the preface of the Bill and shouldn’t be edited directly on the back cover. The presentation of the Long Title in the Editor is an approximation and you should view the PDF to see it properly formatted.

  • By default, the back cover will include supporter information.  If there are no supporters, place the cursor in the supporter information on the back cover, select ‘Supporter block’ from the breadcrumb, and press Backspace to delete it cleanly from the back cover.

  • If no brought from date is supplied, the back cover will display presenter/supporter information and the copyright statement will only include one House (the ‘printed by’ House).

  • If brought from date is supplied, the block above the ‘Ordered to be printed’ section will display the ‘brought from’ date and the copyright statement will include both Houses.

• Some elements of the back cover will automatically update when you change them in the Document Information panel but for others you will need to reinsert the back cover before the changes will be visible.

If you just want to update the table of contents, use the Insert table of contents menu option instead - see Inserting table of contents