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

Instructions

From the Amendment Manager, select Amendment Actions > Create Official List
Select Marshalled List and update the relevant information in the dialog box and click on Create
The Marshalled List will appear in a new tab in the Editor, containing all relevant amendments sorted and automatically numbered.
If it is Further Consideration Stage: delete the ‘Order of Consideration block’ from the title by selecting it in the breadcrumb and deleting the whole element.
If it is Consideration Stage: update the Order of Consideration with “Clauses & Schedules” as required

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they do not have the status “withdrawn” (withdrawn amendments will not appear in the Marshalled List)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
1. Place your cursor in the amendment in the Editor view
2. Right-click and select “Update star status”
3. 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.