5.—(1) Where any application made under Article 33 of the 1972 Order is effective on the day appointed for the coming into operation of Article 39 of this Order—
(a)the application shall have effect as if made under the said Article 39;
(b)anything done before that day in relation to the application shall have effect as if done under the corresponding provisions of Schedule 8 to this Order; and
(c)the provisions of Part II of this Order shall apply accordingly.
(2) Article 39 of this Order shall not apply in relation to—
(a)the construction of a generating station, or its application as constructed; or
(b)the extension of a generating station, or its operation as extended,
if its construction or, as the case may be, extension is authorised by a consent given or having effect as if given under Article 33 of the 1972 Order, before the day appointed for the coming into operation of the said Article 39.