Outstanding requests for removal from the register
6.—(1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies if—
(a)an English registered social landlord has made a request before the commencement date under section 4(4) of the 1996 Act (removal from register) to be removed from the register, and
(b)the request has not been determined by the TSA or withdrawn before that date.
(2) The request is to be treated, on and after the commencement date, as a request under section 119 of the 2008 Act (de-registration: voluntary).
(3) For this purpose, any consultation wholly or partly undertaken before the commencement date under section 4(5) of the 1996 Act is to be treated as a consultation wholly or partly undertaken under section 119(3) of the 2008 Act.