Transitional provisions

10.—(1) Notwithstanding the substitution of regulation 9 of the 2000 Regulations pursuant to regulation 8 of these Regulations, if, before the relevant date—

(a)a procured audit has not been completed; or

(b)a report of a procured audit has not been obtained by the infrastructure controller in question in accordance with regulation 9(1) of the 2000 Regulations in force on the day before the relevant date; or

(c)copies of a report of a procured audit have not been sent by the infrastructure controller in question in accordance with regulation 9(2) of the 2000 Regulations in force on the day before the relevant date,

the provisions of regulation 9 of the 2000 Regulations in force on the day before the relevant date shall continue to apply with respect to the procured audit, the audit report or the copies of the audit report, as the case may be, as if regulation 9 of the 2000 Regulations had not been substituted in accordance with regulation 8 of these Regulations.

(2) In this regulation—

(a)“procured audit” means an audit procured by an infrastructure controller in accordance with regulation 9(1) of the 2000 Regulations in force on the day before the relevant date; and

(b)“the relevant date” means 1st April 2003.