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In Bills/Acts

Provision

Conditions

Rule

  • Paragraph
  • Sub-paragraph
  • Sub-sub-paragraph
  • Definition or
  • Step
  • where there is only one of its kind; and
  • the parent isn’t a section or a schedule paragraph or step
  • Provision will be ‘promoted’ into a sibling of its parent provision, copying over any text
  • If the provision had child elements, they will remain child elements with the following additional change:
    • Sub-paragraphs and sub-sub-paragraphs will be converted ‘up’ a single level unless they are children of a child definition
  • Paragraph
  • Sub-paragraph
  • Sub-sub-paragraph
  • Definition or
  • Step
  • where the provision is not the last child of its kind
  • Provision will be ‘promoted’ into a sibling of the parent provision, copying over any text.
  • Any sibling provisions to the ‘promoted’ provision will now become child provisions to the newly ‘promoted’ provision
  • Paragraph
  • Sub-paragraph
  • Sub-sub-paragraph
  • Definition or
  • Step
  • where it is the last child of its parent; and
  • there is more than one of its kind
  • Provision will be ‘promoted’ into the closing words of the parent provision, copying over any text.
  • If the provision had child elements, it will be promoted into a sibling of its parent provision, copying over any text and keeping the child elements with the following additional change:
    • Sub-paragraphs and sub-sub-paragraphs will be converted ‘up’ a single level unless they are children of a child definition or step
  • Closing words
  • The provision’s parent isn’t section or schedule paragraph
  • Closing words will be ‘promoted’ into a sibling of the parent provision, copying over any text
  • Schedule subparagraph
  • where there is only one of its kind
  • Schedule subparagraph will become the schedule paragraph’s content, copying over any text
  • If the schedule sub-paragraph had child elements, they will remain child elements with no change in element type.
  • Subsection
  • where there is only one of its kind
  • The subsection will become the section’s content, copying over any text
  • If the subsection had child elements, they will remain child elements with no change in element type.
  • Subsection
  • where the provision is not the first or last child of its kind
  • A section will be created with a subsection.  The subsection will contain the promoted subsection’s content and the heading of the section will be left blank
  • If the subsection had child elements, they will remain child elements with no change in element type.
  • Schedule sub-paragraph
  • where the provision is not the first or last child of its kind
  • Schedule subparagraph will be ‘promoted’ into a sibling of the parent schedule paragraph, copying over any text
  • Any sibling schedule sub-paragraphs to the ‘promoted’ provision will now become child schedule sub-paragraphs to the newly ‘promoted’ provision


In SI/SSIs

Provision

Conditions

Rule

  • Paragraphs with numbering format (a), (i) or (aa)
  • Definition or
  • Step
  • where there is only one of its kind; and
  • the parent isn’t a regulation (or article etc.) or a schedule paragraph
  • Provision will be ‘promoted’ into a sibling of its parent provision, copying over any text
  • If the provision had child elements, they will remain child elements with the following additional change:
    • Lower level paragraphs with numbering format (i) and/or (aa) will be converted ‘up’ a single level unless they are children of a child definition or step
  • Paragraphs with numbering format (a), (i) or (aa)
  • Definition or
  • Step
  • where the provision is not the last child of its kind
  • Provision will be ‘promoted’ into a sibling of its parent provision, copying over any text.
  • Any sibling provisions to the ‘promoted’ provision will now become child provisions to the newly ‘promoted’ provision
  • Paragraphs with numbering format (a), (i) or (aa)
  • Definition or
  • Step
  • where it is the last child of its parent; and
  • there is more than one of its kind
  • Provision will be ‘promoted’ into the closing words of its parent provision, copying over any text.
  • If the provision had child elements, it will be promoted into a sibling of its parent provision, copying over any text and keeping the child elements with the following additional change:
    • Lower level paragraphs with numbering format (i) and/or (aa) will be converted ‘up’ a single level unless they are children of a child definition or step
  • Closing words
  • The provision’s parent isn’t section or schedule paragraph
  • Closing words will be ‘promoted’ into a sibling of its parent provision, copying over any text
  • Schedule subparagraph
  • where there is only one of its kind
  • Schedule subparagraph will become the schedule paragraph’s content, copying over any text
  • If the schedule sub-paragraph had child elements, they will remain child elements with no change in element type.
  • Paragraph with the numbering format (1)
  • where there is only one of its kind
  • A regulation (or article etc.) will be created with a paragraph.  The promoted paragraph’s content will become the new paragraph’s content and the heading of the regulation (or article etc.) will be left blank
  • If the paragraph had child elements, they will remain child elements with no change in element type.
  • Schedule subparagraph
  • where the provision is not the first or last child of its kind
  • Schedule subparagraph will be ‘promoted’ into a sibling of the parent schedule paragraph, copying over any text
  • Any sibling schedule sub-paragraphs to the ‘promoted’ provision will now become child schedule sub-paragraphs to the newly ‘promoted’ provision
  • Paragraph with the numbering format (1)
  • where the provision is not the first or last child of its kind
  • A regulation (or article etc.) will be created with a paragraph.  The promoted paragraph’s content will become the new paragraph’s content and the heading of the regulation (or article etc.) will be left blank
  • If the paragraph had child elements, these will be copied to the newly created paragraph without any change to their element types.
  • Schedule subparagraph
  • where it is the last child of its parent; and
  • there is more than one of its kind
  • Schedule subparagraph will be ‘promoted’ into a sibling of the parent schedule paragraph, copying over the text into a newly inserted schedule sub-paragraph of the newly created schedule paragraph
  • If the schedule sub-paragraph had child elements, these will be copied to the newly created schedule sub-paragraph without any change to their element types.
  • Siblings to the schedule sub-paragraph being promoted will also remain as siblings to the newly created schedule sub-paragraph
  • Paragraph with the numbering format (1)
  • where it is the last child of its parent; and
  • there is more than one of its kind
  • A regulation (or article etc.) will be created with a paragraph.  The promoted paragraph’s content will become the new paragraph’s content and the heading of the regulation (or article etc.) will be left blank
  • If the paragraph had child elements, these will be copied to the newly created paragraph without any change to their element types.
  • Any sibling paragraphs to the ‘promoted’ paragraph will be copied over to become siblings to the newly inserted paragraph in the newly inserted regulation (or article etc.).
  • Bullet lists


  • The bullet list item and all its child bullet list items will be promoted to become a bullet list at the level above
  • If the selected item is at the highest level and doesn’t have any child elements, the bullet list item will be promoted into a paragraph of text (without a bullet)
  • If the selected item is at the highest level and contains child bullet list items, it’s not possible to ‘promote’ this bullet list further
  • Paragraph lists in Explanatory notes and Preamble


  • The paragraph list item and all its child paragraph list items will be promoted to become a paragraph list at the level above – converting the numbering e.g. from (aa) to (i) and (i) to (a)
  • If the selected paragraph is at the highest level (i.e. number format (a)) and doesn’t have any child elements, the paragraph list item will be promoted into a paragraph of text (without a number)
  • If the selected paragraph item is at the highest level and contains child paragraph list items, it’s not possible to ‘promote’ this paragraph further
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