Generating the NI Notice of Withdrawals

The Notice of Withdrawals is published whenever an amendment has been withdrawn on a particular day. The amendment should have previously been published on a Notice of Amendments.

How to generate a Notice of Amendments

Before you can generate a Notice of Withdrawals, you will need to withdrawn the amendments

Step 1: Withdraw the amendment(s) in a temporary list

Instructions

From the Amendment Manager, select the amendment(s) that the proposer wishes to withdraw using the check boxes
Select Amendment Actions > Create temporary list
View the Amendment Statuses right-hand panel
If there are only a few amendments—
1. Place your cursor in the first amendment in the list
2. Click on Withdrawn button
3. Move to the next amendment either by clicking on it in the Editor or using keyboard shortcut Alt + K
4. Repeat clicking on the Withdrawn button for any other amendments in the list
If there was a long list of amendments—
1. Click on the Bulk update statuses button
2. Select all amendments and select transition “Tabled to Withdrawn” and update
Save your changes and close the list

Step 2: Generate the Notice of Amendments

Dialog box for creating a Notice of Withdrawal

Instructions

From the Amendment Manager, select Amendment Actions > Create Official List from the dropdown menu in the top right of the page
Select Notice of Withdrawals
Update the relevant information in the dialog box and click on Create

The Notice of Withdrawals will appear in a new tab in the Editor, containing all relevant amendments sorted and grouped

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 Notice of Withdrawals

Filtering which amendments to include in the list

Amendments will appear in the Notice of Amendments if—

they have been given the outcome “withdrawn” before the specified cut-off date (and time if supplied),
they have already been published on a Notice of Amendments, and
they haven’t already been published on another Notice of Withdrawals. To check if an amendment has been published on another list, open the amendment in a temporary list, place cursor in the amendment, open ‘Amendment status’ in the right-hand panel and click on the link “Manage lifecycle events” which will list all events, including ‘published’ if it has been published. If it was published in error, you can delete this event.)

Grouping the amendments

Amendments are grouped by proposer.
Lawmaker uses the ‘Submitted’ date/time to determine sort order of each group (if more than one proposer withdrew their amendments on the same day).
Whoever submitted their amendments to the Bill Office earliest - their withdrawn amendments will appear first.

Sorting the amendments

Amendments within each proposer group are sorted by the order they appear in the bill - Clauses 1-n, Schedules 1-n and Long Title amendments appearing last.

A note will appear before each amendment with the rubric “The following amendment tabled by {Member} on {***}, has now been withdrawn:
You will need to manually update the Member name and date for each amendment
You can delete the amendment note if there were lots from the same proposer and it looks repetitive
If you deleted a note but later decide you want to reinsert one, place your cursor in the amendment, right-click and select ‘Insert amendment note’