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SCHEDULE 4TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO EXISTING LICENCES AND LICENCE EXEMPTIONS

Applications for licences under the Railways Act 1993 or the Railways Regulations 1998

8.—(1) This paragraph applies in relation to any application for a licence under Part 1 of the Railways Act 1993 or under the Railways Regulations 1998 for the authorisation of services to which regulation 5 applies, and made before the relevant date but not then determined.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), the application shall on and after that date be treated as an application for a European licence, and Part 2 of these Regulations shall apply accordingly.

(3) Where any act has been done (including the payment of any fee) in relation to an application to which sub-paragraph (1) applies before the relevant date, nothing in sub-paragraph (2) requires that act to be repeated.