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However, given the place we are in, I have tabled a further compromise amendment, under Motion 55A, that uses the examples laid out by the Government and that seeks to limit the scope of the reasonable excuse to only allow a narrow set of cases. It uses the definition of “intimate state” in the Sexual Offences Act to ensure that reasonable excuse cannot be used as a Trojan horse. It means that under no circumstances would anyone be allowed to use reasonable excuse if they had created content where a person was participating or engaging in an act that a reasonable person would consider to be a sexual act, or where the person was doing something that a reasonable person would consider to be sexual.