8.—(1) Where these Regulations require or authorise an individual or any other person to do something within a specified period, the individual or other person may apply to Ministers for further time within which to comply.
(2) On receipt of an application under paragraph (1), Ministers may, on cause shown or otherwise where they consider it reasonable to do so, grant any further period or periods of time as they consider appropriate.
(3) Where Ministers have granted a further period of time, any reference in these Regulations to that period of time is to be construed as a reference to the period of time as so extended.