(1)The appropriate national authority may by regulations make provision about the specifying in quality partnership schemes of facilities which are already being provided before the schemes are proposed (“existing facilities”).
(2)The regulations may in particular—
(a)provide that existing facilities may not be specified if they were being provided before a date prescribed by, or determined in accordance with, the regulations,
(b)provide that particular existing facilities or classes of existing facilities may not be specified (whenever they were first provided),
(c)provide that particular existing facilities or classes of existing facilities may be specified only in circumstances prescribed by the regulations,
(d)provide that, in circumstances prescribed by the regulations, particular existing facilities or classes of existing facilities may be specified only with the consent of a person prescribed by, or determined in accordance with, the regulations, and
(e)make provision modifying any provision of sections 115 to 117 in relation to schemes which specify existing facilities.