Outstanding applications at calculation date
5. Where at the calculation date there is outstanding an application for a maintenance assessment or a departure direction, or under Article 18 or 19 of the former Order for the revision or supersession of a maintenance assessment, an interim maintenance assessment or a departure direction, the Department may—
(a)where the application has been finally decided in accordance with Regulations made under the former Order for deciding such applications, supersede the maintenance assessment in accordance with regulation 3; or
(b)where it is unable to make a final decision on the application for—
(i)a departure direction, or
(ii)a revision or supersession,
supersede the maintenance assessment or the interim maintenance assessment in accordance with regulation 3.