7. The Commons (Schemes) Regulations 1982(1), to the extent that they relate to land within the New Forest National Park, shall apply —
(a)as if the Authority were a council for the purposes of those Regulations; and
(b)as if in forms 1 and 2 in the Schedule to those Regulations references to the Authority were substituted for references to the Council.
S.I. 1982/209. Paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 to the 1995 Act provides that section 1 of the Commons Act 1899 (c. 30) (scheme for regulation) shall have effect in relation to a registered common as if a National Park authority were a local authority for the purposes of that enactment.