Generating the NI Marshalled List
The Marshalled List is published in advance of the debate at the relevant stage and is an amalgamation of all tabled amendments, selected for debate and sorted in the order they appear in the bill.
How to generate a Marshalled List
Dialog box for generating a Marshalled List
How to update the footer with list number
If there is more than one Marshalled List produced at any amending stage, the amendment list number displayed in the footer of the list will need updating.
When your amendment list has been checked and is ready for printing/publishing, you need to publish the list in Lawmaker in order for automated processes in the amendment list generation logic to work.
Process and logic for auto-generating the Marshalled List
Filtering which amendments to include in the list
Amendments will appear in the Notice of Amendments if—
they were recorded as having been “tabled” up to the specified cut-off date (and time if supplied),
they do not have the status “notSelected” (amendments that were not selected will not appear in the Marshalled List), and
they do not have the status “withdrawn” (withdrawn amendments will not appear in the Marshalled List)
Sorting the amendments
Amendments are sorted by the order they appear in the bill: Clauses 1-n, Schedules 1-n and Long Title amendments appearing last.
As automatic sorting in Lawmaker is limited to page and line information gleaned from the amendment, you might sometimes need to add sort codes when there are 2 or more amendments with the same location information.
Automatically assigned numbers
Amendments are automatically numbered on a Marshalled List, starting “Amendment 1” and so on.
Stand part clause/schedule motions at Consideration stage are not numbered.
Amendments to amendments are numbered.
If an amendment is sorted incorrectly, you can use the structure view to drag & drop it to the correct location and manually overwrite the assigned amendment numbers to correct them. However, unless you fix the sorting information (location information on the ‘Amendment Information’ right-hand panel) then the incorrect sorting will additionally occur in the Speaker’s Brief see Managing amendment information
Amendments to amendments
As long as you updated the location information for any amendments to amendments (a2a) when they appeared in the Notices, the sort order should be correct in the Marshalled List. If some fine-tuning is still required, update the sort code for each affected a2a in the ‘Amendment Information’ right-hand panel.
When a2as appear in the Marshalled List, their italic heading (Amend Context) needs updating with their target amendment’s assigned number. When you save these changes, the location information visible in the ‘Amendment Information’ right-hand panel will automatically update the provision to “amnd_x” where x is the target amendment’s number. For more information see NI amendments to amendments .
Starred amendments
If you had an amendment tabled after the deadline, you can assign an asterisk to it to highlight that it was tabled after the deadline. To do this
Place your cursor in the amendment in the Editor view
Right-click and select “Update star status”
Select asterisk and Update
An asterisk will appear next to the selected amendment. You can remove it by following the same steps.
If you generate another list, the star status will be lost and you will need to reassign a star.
Red highlighted amendments
If you have some amendments in the list that are highlighted in red text, they will have triggered one of the following rules:
Two or more amendments have the same clause/schedule, page and line number and at least one amendment doesn't have a sort code;
Two or more amendments have the same clause/schedule, page and line number and at least 2 amendments have the same sort code; and
Two or more amendments do not have a target provision (this can happen for amendments to page & line amendments whose location information hasn’t been manually updated - see NI amendments to amendments )
To fix the red highlighting, you will need to update the location information for each of the highlighted amendments - see NI amendments to amendments and Managing amendment information .
Red highlighting will not appear in the PDF - it is only visible in the Editor as a way of drawing your attention to potentially important missing information.
Refreshing the list in the Editor
If an amendment is sorted incorrectly, you can use the structure view to drag & drop it to the correct location. However, you risk this error creeping in again when the Speaker’s Brief or Minutes of Proceedings are eventually generated.
The best solution would be to update the amendment’s location information in the Amendment Information right-hand panel.
To refresh the list so that the updated amendment is correctly sorted (without having to manually drag & drop the amendment), select Tools > Regenerate List which essentially re-reruns ‘Generate List’ logic and repopulates the list in the Editor without having to delete the list and regenerate it again. The added benefit of this at the Marshalling stage is that you don’t need to manually update the numbering following a sort order change.
See Regenerating/populating a list with amendments for more information on how this feature works.