Note - the ‘Applied amendment error' message will quote the assigned amendment number if the amendment has one e.g. “Amendment 3”. In the screenshots below, the amendments didn’t have assigned numbers so the DNumber is quoted instead.
Error message
Potential issues
The instruction isn’t recognised.
Check for typos.
If it’s not a standard amendment instruction, Lawmaker will not recognise it and you may need to manually apply the amendment.
Note - if a long title amendment contains a line number in the location line of the amendment, you will see this error message.
Check the ordinal e.g. “second” is correct
Check the word in single quotes is spelt correctly
Note - the case & punctuation rule behind ordinals:
NIA is case insensitive; and
NIA is punctuation insensitive.
Check the page and line number information is correct
Check the provisions in the amendment’s quoted structure. There is an issue with these amendments and the insert location.
Conflicting amendments being applied in the same location: only one amendment will be applied and the other amendment(s) will be captured by this error message.
This is a warning message rather than an error message.
The warning is only there so that you check the insertion ordering of the amendments
If the amendments all had sort codes, this warning does not appear as the insert order will be determined by the sort code information.
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