29.—(1) This paragraph applies to an application for the grant of a licence under this Schedule made before the appointed day.N.I.
(2) A council shall not consider any application to which this paragraph applies before the appointed day.
(3) A council shall not grant any application to which this paragraph applies until it has considered all such applications.
(4) In considering which of several applications to which this paragraph applies should be granted a council shall give preference over other applicants to any applicant who satisfies them—
(a)that he is using the premises, vehicle, vessel or stall to which the application relates as a sex establishment; and
(b)that some person was using the premises, vehicle, vessel or stall as a sex establishment on 1st August 1984; and
(c)that—
(i)he is that person; or
(ii)he is a successor of that person in the business or activity which was being carried on there on that date.