I am not going to get into providing interpretations of an Act that was not government legislation, which we advised against and which we said, in our view, had considerable deficiencies. These are matters for lawyers. It is ultimately for the courts to determine what the Act says and requires, so I will go no further, no matter how many times people intervene on me, than saying that we are going to abide by the law.
Brexit
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Callanan
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 2 October 2019.
It occurred during Debate on Brexit.
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799 c1767 
Session
2017-19
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2019-10-11 12:17:30 +0100
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