2 Applications for authorisation under section 8 of 1986 Act
1 Where—
(a) an application has been made to the Secretary of State or the Director under section 8 of the 1986 Act (authorisation of persons other than public gas suppliers) by any person;
(b) the application is not determined before the appointed day; and
(c) the applicant notifies the Director on or within 28 days after the appointed day that the application is henceforth to be treated as if it were an application to the Director for either or both of the following, namely—
(i) a licence granted under section 7A(1) of the 1986 Act (licensing of gas suppliers); and
(ii) a licence granted under section 7A(2) of that Act (licensing of gas shippers),
the application shall, subject to the following provisions of this article, be treated accordingly.
2 Sections 7A and 7B of the 1986 Act shall apply in relation to any application so treated, and any licence granted or proposed to be granted under the application, as if subsections (1) and (2) of section 7B were omitted.
Sections 7A and 7B were inserted by sections 6 and 7 respectively of the 1995 Act.
3 Any reference in this article to a licence of any description includes a reference to an extension of such a licence.