Transitional provisions
18.—(1) This article applies where—
(a)before the appointed day a request has been made to the Authority for its consent under section 8AA(2) and (3)(1) of the Gas Act to the assignment of a licence; and
(b)the Authority has not given its consent before the appointed day.
(2) On and after the appointed day section 8AA of the Gas Act shall apply to a request and any consent given as if, notwithstanding the commencement by this Order of any provisions of the Act, it had not been replaced.
(1)
Section 8AA of the Gas Act was inserted into the Gas Act by the Gas Act 1995, Schedule 3, paragraph 1. With effect from the appointed day it is amended by section 74.