2. Until the coming fully into force of section 1 (licences to abstract water), sections 38(1A) (general consideration of licence applications) and 46A (limited extension of abstraction licence validity) of the WRA, as inserted by sections 15 and 20 respectively, shall have effect as if—
(a)any reference to a “full licence or a transfer licence” were a reference to a licence under Chapter 2 of Part 2 of the WRA;
(b)in paragraph (a) of section 38(1A), the words “of the same type” were omitted; and
(c)in subsection (3) of section 46A, the words “of the type in question” were omitted.