Extension of period for consideration of applications for existing processes
3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), in the case of an application for an authorisation to carry on an existing process subject to integrated central control or restricted central control, for the period mentioned in paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 1 to the 1997 Order there shall be substituted the period of nine months.
(2) In the case of an application referred to in paragraph (1) to which Article 5(2) also applies the period mentioned in paragraph (1) shall begin with the day on which the matters to be determined under Articles 21 or 22 of the 1997 Order are finally disposed of.