Commons Bill [HL]

I am most grateful again to my noble friend. I understand that claims on the commons registry of ownership are not conclusive legally. Nevertheless, if graziers, commoners, want to find out who owns the land on which they can graze their sheep, they can go conveniently to a registry and find out. If that means that they have to go thereon to the Land Registry, so be it. After all, the owner will have an obligation of what is in the registry, if my amendment is accepted. It may be that the owner will say, ““I am not going to have anything on the commons registry which is not substantiated by an entry in the Land Registry””. That is perfectly acceptable. I simply want an entry, so that we—the graziers, the 28 upland Radnor farmers—know who owns the common on which they graze their sheep.