Background & Introduction
Legal numbering was made available to Lawmaker with the release of version 15.0 in August 2023. It was developed for Court Rules, but is available in all types of SI\SSIs and Bills, across jurisdictions.
To use legal numbering, create a new SI/SSI as normal and insert your first provision.
Change to Legal Numbering
Click on your first number and update the number to the correct format ie: 1.1.
Next, Lock the number by, one of the following actions:
Right-clicking on the number and selecting Lock/Unlock Number
Press Alt L
From the Tools menu, select Lock/Unlock Number
More information on locking can be found here - Locking and unlocking numbers
Then continue with your SI/Bill as normal. Lawmaker will create the right numbering structure, and also renumber using the right structure.
You will need to also lock any numbered provision following a Part.
There is currently a bug, if you copy court rules numbering from another source, eg: Word or legislation.gov.uk. Lawmaker will insert any numbering after the first full stop, as text into the paragraph. You can work around this by simply deleting the additional characters.