8.—(1) In the application for the purposes of section 17 of the 1991 Act and this Order of subsection (4) of section 43 of the 1979 Act, the words from “and the method of apportionment” to the end of that subsection shall not apply; and, instead, the method of apportionment adopted for the purposes of any computationunder Chapter II of Part II of the 1979 Act as applied for the purposes of section 17 of the 1991 Act and this Order shall, subject to the express provisions of that Chapter as so applied, be such method as appears to the appropriate Minister or, in the event of a dispute, to a referee to be just and reasonable.
(2) The said subsection (4) shall apply as if the words “necessary apportionments” referred to any apportionments which appear to the appropriate Minister or, in the event of a dispute (in which case article 38 shall apply for the purpose of resolving it), to a referee to be necessary for the purposes of this Order.