Editorial Update/Blanket Amendments
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A provision may make an amendment or modification that is framed in such a way as to affect legislation generally rather than any specific enactment. We call this a “blanket amendment‟.
An example of a blanket amendment that changes the text of affected legislation might be: “For the words "Supreme Court Act 1981" wherever they occur in any enactment substitute "Senior Courts Act”.
During the identify and record effects tasks we will identify textual blanket amendments. We will identify which legislation is affected by the blanket amendments but we won’t work out and record every provision that needs to be changed as a result.
If you are presented with a “blanket amendment” type of effects you should:
- Read the affecting provision carefully and ensure you are clear on what words needs editing and whether there are any exceptions to the amendment.
- Open the whole Act on legislation.gov.uk and search for the words to be edited, the amendment will usually be a substitution. Make a list of all the affected provisions, it is helpful to add the list to the ‘notes’ against the blanket amendment effect so that the reviewer knows what you have changed.
- Use the Table of Contents to check out the most appropriate level of the Act in to which to carry out your amendment. For example, if there is only one change to one provision required you can check out the individual provision but if there are a lot of amendments you may want to check out a whole Part or even the whole Act.
- Follow the appropriate instructions for the amendment concerned, each time you carry out the amendment you should highlight the task in the ‘Resource Manager’ window and a new annotation will be created (unless the words are in the same provision and then you will get just one annotation).
- The annotation should read “Words in Act substituted XX” or “Words in Measure substituted” – the individual provisions will not be specified.