Amendment sorted in wrong location in an official list

The sort logic used when generating official lists relies on the location information for each amendment which is displayed in the Amendment Information right-hand panel (type, location, provision, page, line & sort code). Most of these are also visible on the Amendment Manager tab as well. If an auto-generated official list is showing an amendment in the wrong position, make sure you check and update the location information

Avoid just dragging the amendment to the correct location as that won’t fix the issue the next time a subsequent list is generated

Instructions

With the list open in the Editor…

1. Place your cursor in the amendment that is in the wrong position

2. Open up the Amendment Information right-hand panel

3. Check and update the location information as required e.g. adding or updating a sort code or removing the location information if not relevant to the amendment

4. Wait for the list to update and save your changes

5. Re-generate the list by selecting Tools > Update List from the upper tool bar menus

• Update List will re-run the list generation logic which should result in your updated amendment being correctly sorted.

• [Lords and Scottish Parliament only] If you had unpublished amendments whose numbers needed to change as part of this update, they will be renumbered as well. Published amendment numbers do not get overwritten automatically - only users can overwrite published amendment’s numbers.