In relation to any application for a licence under Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the WRA a notice of which was published before 1st April 2006 in accordance with section 37 of the WRA, that section continues to have effect as it had effect immediately before that date.

Sub–paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to an excepted application.

Paragraph 6 (above), and regulation 36 of the Water Resources (Abstraction and Impounding) Regulations 200615, do not have effect in relation to an excepted application.

In this paragraph “an excepted application” means an application submitted to the Agency on or after 1st April 2007.