Commons Bill [HL]

My Lords, my understanding is that the noble Lord, Lord Inglewood, is correct. I hope that I will be corrected if I am wrong. I am not aware of any circumstance in which the error to which the noble Earl refers has occurred. I will look into it and see whether we have any evidence that it has, but my understanding is that the result of the owner having changed their position voluntarily under the Commons Registration Act 1965 is that it is a fact. My instinct is that one would be changing the effect of legislation retrospectively were one to interfere with that. I know that the noble Earl is greatly taxed by the issue. I am sure that he would appreciate further clarification, were it to be helpful to him, before Third Reading.