Commons Bill [HL]

Perhaps I may correct my noble friend. The Electricity Act 1989 provides that any electricity installation of above 50 megawatts generating capacity is referred automatically to the Secretary of State. Anything under that is designed for local authority—national authority, in the case of Wales—approval. We need not continue this discussion because we have resolved the problem. I was concerned only that a future government might wish to produce legislation which could enforce wind farms of a smaller nature on common land. As I read my noble friend’s amendment, that would be allowed if the legislation were so passed.