Anticipatory exercise of regulatory functions
2.—(1)
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the Greater London Council and each metropolitan county council shall supply to the successor authority by which the relevant function will fall to be discharged on and after 1st April 1986 a copy of any application, objection, notice or other document which—
(a)relates to a permission for such a period as is mentioned in that paragraph, or
(b)in their opinion may fall to be dealt with in relation to such a period.
(3) Where in pursuance of paragraph (1) a successor authority grants a permission to an applicant in respect of a matter for which that applicant has, in respect of the whole or part of the period of the permission and in exercise of the same function, also been granted a permission by the Greater London Council or a metropolitan county council, section 98 of the Act shall not apply to continue the second-mentioned permission in effect during any period in which the first-mentioned permission has effect.