1Power for district council to make scheme for regulation of common
(1)The council of an urban or rural district may make a scheme for the regulation and management of any common within their district with a view to the expenditure of money on the drainage, levelling, and improvement of the common, and to the making of byelaws and regulations for the prevention of nuisances and the preservation of order on the common.
(2)The scheme may contain any of the statutory provisions for the benefit of the neighbourhood mentioned in section seven of the [39 & 40 Vict. c. 56.] ommons Act, 1876.
(3)The scheme shall be in the prescribed form, and shall identify by reference to a plan the common to be thereby regulated, and for this purpose an ordnance survey map shall, if possible, be used.