17.—(1) This article applies where any person makes a 2012 transitional application.
(2) Article 8 applies to an application to which this article applies as if—
(a)for the reference to “transitional application” there were substituted “2012 transitional application”;
(b)for all references to “1st April 2011” there were substituted “1st April 2012”; and
(c)all references to individual paragraphs of article 8 were interpreted as references to those paragraphs as applied by this article.