15.—(1) The amendments to regulations B1, C18 and G8 of the Principal Regulations made by regulations 4, 6, and 10 above and the insertion of regulation C3A into the Principal Regulations made by regulation 5 above shall not have effect where a relevant request was received by the Secretary of State before 1st November 1998.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) a relevant request is a request that the Secretary of State specifies, pursuant to regulation B1(6) of the Principal Regulations (as in force immediately before 1st November 1998), that an election under regulation B1 of the Principal Regulations should have effect from a date earlier than the first day of the month after that in which the notice of the election was given (whether such request was made in the notice of the election or subsequent to it).
