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📘 Introduction

📚 Exercises

🛠️ Getting Started

Before you can create inline amendments, you will need a published version of the bill (download the XML file here )
The following steps will allow you to create the data required for this exercise.

  1. Create a new project selecting Northern Ireland Bill and Executive Bill and providing the title [Your Initials] Inline Amending Bill

  2. Close the Editor after it loads using the Close Editor button.

  3. From the Project tab, select Document Actions > Upload document—

    1. Specify a folder As Introduced

    2. Specify a version description As Introduced

    3. Select the downloaded Inline_amending_bill.xml file

    4. Click on Upload button

  4. Find the newly uploaded document version and select Actions > Update Document Information—

    1. Update the Title to [Your Initials] Inline Amending Bill

    2. Click on Update button

  5. Find the imported document on the Project tab and select Actions > Generate PDF

  6. Click on the black triangle to the left of the imported bill version name to expand the view of snapshots

    1. On the grey PDF snapshot version, select Actions > Publish version

    2. The published version will appear on the right-hand side of the Project tab and a snapshot is created under the working version.

You now have a published version of a bill reading to start creating amendments inline.

✏️ Creating textual amendments (leave out, insert and substitute)

  1. On the Amendment Workspace tab, click on the +New button image-20250218-153255.png

  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. Textual amendments

    5. Click on the Create button

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

Insert text amendments

  1. Create a simple ‘insert' amendment by—

    1. In Section 2, within Article 44A—(1) (in the inserted text), place your cursor after 'hotel' and click Enter to view the insert menu

    2. Select Insert text—

      1. an empty text element which is surrounded by blue square brackets ready to start typing into

      2. a new card appears in the right-hand panel with the text Insert indicating it is an insert-type amendment

    3. Within the text element, type ‘a country mansion,’

    4. Save your changes—

      1. a unique ID (Dnumber) is assigned which appears on the card in the Inline Amendments right-hand panel and next to the amendment inline.

        image-20250218-162015.png

    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. The amendment you just created is displayed

        image-20250218-161845.png

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

  2. Now recreate the following 3 insert text amendments in your inline document

    image-20250218-162253.png

  3. Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel (if you still had the traditional amendments open in a separate tab, you will need to refresh the list to see the changes by clicking on the refresh button in your browser)

Expected output with brief explanation of the type of amendment created

Type of amendment

Traditional amendment

Example of an amendment with ordinality

image-20250218-163403.png

Example of inserting text at the start of a provision

image-20250218-163413.png

Example of inserting text immediately before punctuation (before the ending full-stop)

image-20250218-163422.png

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

Leave out text amendments

  1. Create a simple ‘leave out' amendment by—

    1. In Clause 3, within Article 44C—(1) (in the inserted text), highlight the text 'in relation' and in the hovering tool bar, click on Leave Out

    2. Save your changes

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

    4. Click on the View Traditional Amendments button

    5. A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab with your first amendment displayed

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

  3. Now recreate the following 2 leave out text amendments in your inline document

    image-20250218-165600.png

  4. Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel (if you still had the traditional amendments open in a separate tab, you will need to refresh the list to see the changes by clicking on the refresh button in your browser)

Expected output with brief explanation of the type of amendment created

Type of amendment

Traditional amendment

Example of an amendment with ordinality

image-20250218-165134.png

Example of leaving out text that spans over a line

image-20250218-165151.png

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

Substitute text amendments

  1. Create a simple ‘substitute' amendment by—

    1. In Section 4(1)(b), highlight the text '“first”' and in the hovering tool bar, click on Substitute—

      1. an empty text element appears

      2. the text that was highlighted is coloured red and struck out

      3. square brackets surround all these changes

      4. a new card appears in the right-hand panel with the text Substitute indicating it is an substitute-type amendment

    2. Within the text element, type ‘“second”’

    3. Save your changes

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

    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 with your first amendment displayed

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

  2. Now recreate the following 3 substitute text amendments in your inline document

    image-20250219-122406.png

  3. Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel (if you still had the traditional amendments open in a separate tab, you will need to refresh the list to see the changes by clicking on the refresh button in your browser)

Expected output with brief explanation of the type of amendment created

Type of amendment

Traditional amendment

Substitute a phrase

image-20250219-122427.png

Substitute a single word

image-20250219-122519.png

Leaving out words that span over a line to the end of a line

image-20250219-122527.png

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

  2. Close the inline document as well using the Close Editor button

✏️ Creating structural amendments (leave out, insert and substitute)

  1. On the Amendment Workspace tab, click on the +New button image-20250218-153255.png

  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. Structural 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” by selecting Tools > Turn on/off renumbering until the green success message says Auto Renumbering: OFF

Insert structure amendments

  1. Create a simple ‘insert' amendment by—

    1. In Section 5, place your cursor anywhere in subsection (1) and click Enter to view the insert menu

    2. Select Subsection—

      1. a subsection is inserted containing an empty text element which is surrounded by blue square brackets ready to start typing into

      2. a new card appears in the right-hand panel with the text Insert indicating it is an insert-type amendment

    3. Within the text element, type ‘Regulations may modify paragraph (2) so as to add or remove a reference to licensed premises of a specified kind.’

    4. Save your changes—

      1. a unique ID (Dnumber) is assigned which appears on the card in the Inline Amendments right-hand panel and next to the amendment inline.

    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. The amendment you just created is displayed

        image-20250219-124725.png

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

  2. Now recreate the following 4 insert structure amendments in your inline document

    1. Inserting a new section before section 8

      image-20250219-125342.png

    2. Inserting a new section after section 8

      image-20250219-125204.png

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

      image-20250219-125934.pngimage-20250219-125849.png

    4. Inserting a new subsection with child paragraphs in section 7

      image-20250219-125040.png

  3. Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel (if you still had the traditional amendments open in a separate tab, you will need to refresh the list to see the changes by clicking on the refresh button in your browser)

Expected output with brief explanation of the type of amendment created

Type of amendment

Traditional amendment

Insert new clause before

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Insert new clause after

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Insert new clause with grouping level (cross heading in this instance)

image-20250218-163422.png

Insert new subsection with child paragraphs

image-20250219-130156.png

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

Leave out structure amendments

  1. Create a simple ‘leave out' structural amendment by—

    1. In Clause 10, place your cursor in subsection (2)(b) and select ‘Paragraph’ from the breadcrumb to highlight the whole paragraph

    2. There isn’t a hovering tool bar when you select whole provisions, so instead view Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel and click on Leave Out image-20250219-131709.png

      1. the paragraph you highlighted will be coloured red and appear struck out

      2. a new card will appear in the Inline Amendments right-hand panel with the text ‘Leave out’

    3. Save your changes

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

    5. Click on the View Traditional Amendments button

    6. A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab with your new amendment displayed

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

  3. Now recreate the following 3 leave out structure amendments in your inline document

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

      image-20250219-132104.png

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

      image-20250219-132115.png

    3. Leave out section 11

      image-20250219-132130.png

  4. Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel (if you still had the traditional amendments open in a separate tab, you will need to refresh the list to see the changes by clicking on the refresh button in your browser)

Expected output with brief explanation of the type of amendment created

Type of amendment

Traditional amendment

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

image-20250219-132226.png

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

image-20250219-132235.png

Leave out section 11 which, as you’ve selected Consideration Stage when creating the inline document, will auto-convert the wording to the ‘stand part’ motion wording which you will need to manually updating in the traditional list as appropriate

image-20250219-132251.png

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

Substitute structural amendments

  1. Create a simple ‘substitute' structural amendment by—

    1. In Section 13, place your cursor in subsection (1) and select ‘Subsection’ from the breadcrumb to highlight the whole provision

    2. There isn’t a hovering tool bar when you select whole provisions, so instead view Inline Amendment Tools in the right-hand panel and click on Substitute

      1. the subsection you highlighted will be coloured red and appear struck out

      2. a new subsection will be inserted after in blue text

      3. a new card will appear in the Inline Amendments right-hand panel with the text ‘Substitute’

      4. Type into the empty ‘text’ element ‘In Article 60 of the Licensing Order (sale, etc., of intoxicating liquor to young persons), after paragraph (4) insert “The”’

    3. Save your changes

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

  3. 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 substitute amendment is displayed

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

  5. Now recreate the following 1 substitute structure amendment in your inline document

    image-20250219-133516.png

  6. Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel (if you still had the traditional amendments open in a separate tab, you will need to refresh the list to see the changes by clicking on the refresh button in your browser)

Expected output with brief explanation of the type of amendment created

Type of amendment

Traditional amendment

Substitute subsection (3) including the child paragraphs and their child quoted structures

image-20250219-133553.png

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

  2. Close the inline document using the Close Editor button

✏️ Creating hybrid amendments (part textual and part structural in composition)

  1. On the Amendment Workspace tab, click on the +New button image-20250218-153255.png

  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. Hybrid 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

Insert hybrid amendments

  1. Create an advanced ‘insert' hybrid amendment to understand the mechanics behind it by—

    1. In Section 23, place your cursor immediately after the text ‘paragraph (3)’ and click Enter to view the insert menu

    2. Select Insert text—

      1. an empty ‘text’ placeholder appears surrounded by blue square brackets ready to start typing into

      2. a new card appears in the right-hand panel with the text Insert indicating it is an insert-type amendment

    3. Within the text element, type ‘—’

    4. Click Enter to view the insert menu

    5. Select Paragraph (a)

    6. Type ‘in sub-paragraph (a), omit “Good Friday or”, and’

    7. Click Enter to view the insert menu and select Paragraph (a) again

    8. Leave the empty ‘text’ placeholder empty as Lawmaker will insert the moved trailing text into this second paragraph when the amendment is applied

    9. Save your changes—

      1. a unique ID (Dnumber) is assigned which appears on the card in the Inline Amendments right-hand panel and next to the amendment inline.

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

    11. 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. The amendment you just created is displayed (remember: empty placeholders do not render on the PDF so you can leave the empty ‘text’ element where it is).

        image-20250219-135254.png

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

  2. Now recreate the following 3 insert hybrid amendments in your inline document

    image-20250219-135733.png

  3. Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel (if you still had the traditional amendments open in a separate tab, you will need to refresh the list to see the changes by clicking on the refresh button in your browser)

Expected output with brief explanation of the type of amendment created

Type of amendment

Traditional amendment

Breaking subsection (2)(a) into 2 paragraphs

image-20250219-135959.png

Adding 2 paragraphs to the end of subsection (3)

Note that the text is added after the full-stop so that Lawmaker knows it should use the ‘at end’ form of words.

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

Leave out hybrid amendments

  1. Create a simple ‘leave out' hybrid amendment by—

    1. In section 25, within Article 26A(1) (in the inserted text), highlight the word ‘which’ and include paragraphs (a) to (b) with the highlight

    2. In the hovering tool bar select Leave Out image-20250219-131709.png

      1. the text and paragraphs you highlighted will be coloured red and appear struck out

      2. a new card will appear in the Inline Amendments right-hand panel with the text ‘Leave out’

    3. Save your changes

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

    5. Click on the View Traditional Amendments button

    6. A document showing a list of draft traditionally formatted amendments will open in the Editor in a new browser tab with your new amendment displayed (note that because the provisions being left out were inside a quoted structure, Lawmaker automatically refers to them as ‘lines’ rather than paragraphs)

      image-20250219-140549.png

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

  3. Now recreate the following leave out hybrid amendment in your inline document

    image-20250219-140814.png

  4. Save your changes and click on the View Traditional Amendments button on the Inline Amendment Tools panel (if you still had the traditional amendments open in a separate tab, you will need to refresh the list to see the changes by clicking on the refresh button in your browser)

Expected output with brief explanation of the type of amendment created

Type of amendment

Traditional amendment

Hybrid leave out which will merge 2 separate subsections into a single subsection

image-20250219-140933.png

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

Substitute hybrid amendments

  1. Create a simple ‘substitute' structural amendment by—

    1. In Section 26(5) highlight from ‘paragraph' until ‘in’ in section 26(5)(c)

    2. In the hovering tool bar click on Substitute

      1. all the text and paragraphs you highlighted will be coloured red and appear struck out

      2. a new ‘text’ element will be inserted after the red text

      3. a new card will appear in the Inline Amendments right-hand panel with the text ‘Substitute’

      4. Type into the empty ‘text’ element ‘sub-paragraph (a) and’

    3. Save your changes

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

  3. 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 substitute amendment is displayed

      image-20250219-142019.png

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

  5. Close the inline document using the Close Editor button

✏️ Creating amendments involving cross references

  1. On the Amendment Workspace tab, click on the +New button image-20250218-153255.png

  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

Amending text of a cross reference

  1. 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

  2. Save your changes

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

  4. 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

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

Inserting marked up cross references into your document

As your inline document is a copy of the bill that is being amended, you can create cross references to the provisions within it and these will be inserted as valid cross references into the ‘as amended’ bill version if this amendment is applied.

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

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

  3. 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

  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

Amending a cross reference which covers a range of provisions

  1. Amend Section 36(1)(c) by attempting to change the cross reference to susbection (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)

  2. Save your changes

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

  4. 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

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

✏️ Adding proposer

✏️ Making tweaks to the traditional amendment

✏️ Removing amendments from the inline document

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