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Climate Change Bill [HL]

I must apologise, through the Committee, to my noble friend Lord Cathcart if he gave the reason for the word ““reasonable”” in Amendment No. 135. In terms of reading it as a text, I did not immediately understand what it meant and I wondered whether it was a misprint for the word ““respective””, ““relevant”” or something similar. It may be a term of art and in that respect I have missed it. I am not seeking to enter on theological issues, particularly in the presence of the two right reverend Prelates, but I must confess that I have long thought that the definition in Blackstone’s Law Dictionary of an act of God as being, "““an act which no reasonable man would expect God to commit””," extremely neat.