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Suggested best practice for lodging and submitting amendments

IMPORTANT: Amendments must first be lodged via an email to the Legislation Team. After that, they should be submitted in Lawmaker.

The following is a suggested work flow for lodging amendments via email and then submitting them in Lawmaker:

  1. Create a list in Lawmaker that contains the amendments you wish to lodge. Give it a unique name (eg, Amendments for lodging on [date] or [Topic] amendments for lodging).

  2. Save the list and close the editor.

  3. Create a PDF of the list from the project dashboard.

  4. Lodge the PDF via email to the Legislation Team. Include at the end of the email that you will submit the amendments in Lawmaker as soon as possible.

  5. Return to the list in Lawmaker and open the editor.

  6. Use the Submit List function to submit the list.

How to submit amendments using Submit List function

To submit amendments using “Submit List” in the editor:

  1. Open editor for the list you wish to wish to submit.

  2. Open the “Document information” panel on the right.

  3. Click on “Submit List”.

  4. All the amendments in the list will be updated to status “Submitted”:

    1. the amendments will become visible and editable to Scottish Parliament and read-only to PCO users, and

    2. A copy of the whole list will be created that is visible to Scottish Parliament which they can use to check and manage the submitted amendments in one place.

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