13.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to a service (the “current service”) which, immediately before the date on which these Regulations come into force, is registered under section 6 of the Transport Act 1985(1) in accordance with the provisions of the principal Regulations in force at that time.
(2) Where this regulation applies, until the date specified in paragraph (3)—
(a)the principal Regulations shall have effect as amended by these Regulations, but as if the provisions hereof specified in paragraph (5) were omitted, and
(b)the current service may be operated, or continue to be operated, in accordance with the principal Regulations as so amended.
(3) The date referred to is the date on which the first variation of the registration after the coming into force of these Regulations becomes effective under section 6(8) of the Transport Act 1985.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), a variation made in any of the circumstances described in regulations 7(2) and 8(2)(c) of the principal Regulations (as they have effect in relation to a current service) shall be ignored.
(5) The provisions referred to in paragraph (2)(a) are—
(a)regulation 3(4),
(b)in regulation 4—
(i)the words “in the case of a standard service,” in the substituted regulation 3(1)(a), and
(ii)the substituted regulation 3(1)(b),
(c)regulations 5, 7, 11 and 12 (and the reference to them in regulation 2(1)) and the Schedule,
(d)in regulation 8, the substituted regulation 8(2)(b), and
(e)in regulation 10, the substituted regulation 12(3)(c).