Amendment did not auto-apply

Scenario

You’ve selected some amendments, but some of them didn’t auto-apply. This can happen occasionally where Lawmaker doesn’t recognise a particular amendment and fails to auto-apply it to the bill. You will see a list of amendments that failed to apply in the Review right-hand panel when you open up the amended bill in the Editor.

If you cannot determine why the amendment failed auto-application, contact the Lawmaker team. They will investigate and assess whether this scenario should be included in the roadmap for a future release.

Workaround

The workaround will depend on the reason why the amendment failed to be auto-applied:

1. Can't apply amendment [#] because the page or line number is invalid. The amendments clause/schedule, page or line number information does not match the page-line information in the last published bill version. To resolve:

   1. Open the amendment in a temporary list,

   2. Correct the location information (Amendment Information r-h panel),

   3. Save your changes,

   4. Re-apply the amendment

2. Can't apply amendment [#]: The insertion of a new Part or Chapter at this point requires the new structure to be created manually. This amendment is ‘breaking’ the existing bill’s grouping level structure. To resolve:

   1. Open the bill in the Editor

   2. Manually restructure the bill by unwrapping and (re)wrapping grouping levels

   3. When the grouping levels are correct, open the amendment in a temporary list and copy the new clause content:

      1. If you didn’t already insert the amendment’s grouping level:

         1. Place your cursor in the amendment's quoted structure

         2. Right-click > Copy content of quoted structure

      2. If you did manually insert the amendment’s grouping level:

         1. Place your cursor in the amendment’s quoted structure

         2. Click on the clause and select ‘section’ from the breadcrumb which will highlight the whole clause

         3. Use key board short cut CTRL + C to copy the new clause

   4. Return to the bill in the Editor and paste the copied content in the correct location using keyboard short cut CTRL + V

3. Warning: amendment [#] is being inserted at the same location as another amendment. If you haven’t used sort codes to order amendments appearing at the same location, you will get this warning e.g. inserting paragraphs from different amendments at the same point in the bill. To resolve:

   1. Check that the inserted paragraphs are in the correct order.

   2. Alternatively, ensure amendments already have sort codes where they appear at the same location.

4. Can't apply amendment [#] because it overlaps with another amendment This is unlikely to occur for ‘as amended’ bills at the end of amending stages as it happens when the target location for an amendment is within provisions or text marked as deleted i.e. conflicting amendments. To resolve:

   1. Either avoid conflicting amendments, or

   2. Manually apply the amendments

5. Can't apply amendment x because the instruction isn't recognised or can't be handled this happens if it’s an amendment that is in the wrong format or a case Lawmaker doesn’t handle yet. Check the wording of the instruction is correct and change it if necessary. Otherwise it may be necessary to manually apply the changes. To manually apply amendments that are inserting new provisions:

   1. Open the amendment in a temporary list,

   2. Place your cursor in the amendment's quoted structure

   3. Right-click > Copy content of quoted structure

   4. Return to the bill in the Editor and paste the copied content in the correct location using keyboard short cut CTRL + V