4.—(1) Where before the coming into operation of these Regulations the Department had received but not determined an application for a consent under the Principal Regulations, that application shall be treated as an application for a licence under regulation 8 of the Abstraction Regulations and the provisions of those Regulations shall, subject to paragraph (2), apply to any application so treated.
(2) Regulation 19(1) of the Abstraction Regulations shall apply to an application to which paragraph (1) refers as if for the period of 4 months there mentioned there was substituted the period of 4 months from the date on which an application for a consent was received under the Principal Regulations .
(3) Any consent granted under the Principal Regulations before the coming into operation of these Regulations shall be treated as a licence under the Abstraction Regulations and the provisions of the Abstraction Regulations shall apply to any licence so treated as they apply to licences granted under those Regulations.
(4) Any matter registered in accordance with paragraph (a) or (b) of regulation 19 of the Principal Regulations before the coming into operation of the Abstraction Regulations shall be registered in the register maintained under Article 30 of the Water (NI) Order 1999(1).
S.I. 1999/662 (N.I.6) as amended by S.I. 2006/1946 (N.I. 15)