Côte d'Ivoire

Importing the docx documents : use docx files to import and for reference when cleaning up the imports. Docx files are saved here : https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1Ljr3T2AvqSY8ssKKVNGDJQ2

Things to look out for in Côte d'Ivoire

• Hierarchy of Documents:

• Livre (Book), Titre (Title), Sous-titre, Chapitre (Chapter), Section, Sous-section, Article

• Livre 1 appears as LIVRE PREMIER in the docx, mark up as BOOK premier

• Chapitre 1 appears as CHAPITRE PREMIER in the docx, mark up as CHAP premier

• Article 1 appears as ARTICLE PREMIER in the docx, mark up as ART premier

• Title 1 appears as TITRE PREMIER in the docx, mark up as TITLE premier

• Section 1 appears as SECTION PREMIERE in the docx, mark up as SEC première

• Part 1 appears as PARTIE PREMIERE in the docx, mark up as PART première

• French words for BOOK (Livre), CHAPTER (Chapitre), TITLE (Titre) and PART (Partie) will automatically appear translated on the view screen when you mark them up in the usual way eg. Chapter will automatically come up as Chapitre when you mark it up using CHAP

• Mark up Sous-titre as SUBTITLE

• Mark up Sous-section as SUBSEC

• Legislation history

  References to legislation history, amendments/modifications reflecting at the top of the work should be captured as an annotation in the Preface

In edit mode:

In view mode:

Example of annotation of multiple amendments https://edit.laws.africa/documents/15249/

Amendment of Articles

Word nouveau (new) will be added in round brackets after article number. Annotation with details of amending work should appear immediately below Article heading, with no round brackets.

In edit mode:

In view mode:

Change headings from CAPITAL LETTERS to Sentence case

Example of text that requires change

At top of screen Click Analysis then Click Make headings sentence case

Text of headings to sentence case and accents are automatically inserted:

You still need to change the words PREMIER to premier. Correct mark up:

Paragraphe which contains Articles

In edit mode: mark up as a SUBPART, include ‘paragraphe’ as part of the number (not the heading)

In view mode:

Irregular numbering of documents: annotation to be inserted

Edit mode:

{{*[Attention: numérotation comme à l'original.]}}

Annexes

Found at end of works, mark up as a SCHEDULE

Table and Forms in Annexes

Tables in document Schedules/Annexes must be imported.

Forms

Forms are not to reproduced

For Forms, please still insert the heading of form and style as usual, with an editorial note (in French) underneath, as shown below:

ANNEXURE - Annexure 1
    SUBHEADING Formulaires
    {{*[Note éditoriale : Les formulaires n’ont pas été reproduits.]}}

If forms are subsequently amended /substituted an annotation should be included to that effect

  {{*[Note éditoriale : Les formulaires n’ont pas été reproduits.]}}

  {{*[Le formulaire 4 est remplacé par .........]}}
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Applying Amendments

The word (nouveau) is added in brackets to the article after the number to indicate that an entire article was substituted.

The annotation is placed below the article number and above the text.

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Edit mode ↓

Where an article is substituted, use the word remplacé

Where an article is repealed use the word abrogé

Where an article is amended, or substituted several times, join the annotations together into one consolidated annotation.

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Edit mode ↓

Please read the section on How to insert an automatically created annotation in the Laws.Africa Editor Guide

https://docs.laws.africa/managing-works/amending-works/annotating-the-amendments