Creating an Order of Consideration

The order of consideration for a particular stage can be specified on the Amendment Manager tab. This will influence the ordering of amendments when an amendment list is generated. Only parliament users can modify the order of consideration.

In Lawmaker, an Order of Consideration consists of a list of entries specifying the order in which clauses/sections or amendments are to be considered. Each entry can be one of a certain kind, depending on the parliament/house and may include a range, e.g. “section 3 to 5”.

The list always contains some entries (e.g. Long Title) at the end that cannot be modified.

There is only one Order of Consideration saved against each Bill version, but it can be updated as many times as needed. Updating an Order of Consideration will only affect new lists, it will not retrospectively change the sort order of existing lists, unless they are subsequently re-generated.

How to create or modify an Order of Consideration

On the Amendment Manager tab, click Order of Consideration. It is only possible to add an Order of Consideration once there is a published version of the Bill.
In the dialog box, select the provision from the drop-down to start creating the order and fill in the “from” and “to” fields as required
To add more entries, click on the + button.
To remove a entry, click on the x button.
Click on Save when you have finished adding or modifying the Order of Consideration.
Alternatively, click Clear if you no longer require an Order of Consideration.

If there is only 1 schedule in the bill, you do not need to populate the ‘from’ and ‘to’ fields
If you are only including one section in a level, you will need to populate both "from" and "to" fields with the same number e.g. Clause(s) 1 to 1

If the Order of Consideration is not comprehensive, i.e. if some amendments do not fall within any of the entries, then the sorting of any generated amendment list may be erratic.

Scottish Parliament Order of Consideration

When you generate a Marshalled list, the Order of Consideration will be used to populate the Order at the beginning of the list.

The only available entries in the Order of Consideration are “Section(s)” and “Schedule(s)”.

House of Commons Order of Consideration

Entries in the Order of Consideration can specify:

Clause(s) x to y - all amendments relating to those clauses
Schedule(s) x to y - all amendments relating to those schedules
New Clause(s) NCx to NCy - amendments to insert new clauses numbered NCx to NCy (if NCx and NCy are left blank then all new clause amendments will be included)
New Schedules(s) NSx to NSy - amendments to insert new schedules numbered NSx to NSy (if NSx and NSy are left blank then all new schedule amendments will be included)
Group heading - this enables you to add a heading that will be inserted at the appropriate place in any marshalled list or proceedings that is generated using this Order of Consideration.

House of Lords Order of Consideration

The dialogue box include a date option which will be used to pre-populate the date on the Marshalled List when one is generated.

The only available entries in the Order of Consideration are “Clause(s)” and “Schedule(s)”.