Transitional provisions
3.—(1) Where on 1st April 2003 a person is providing a care service to which this article applies the service shall be treated for all purposes as if it had been registered under Part 1 of the Act on that date.
(2) Paragraph 1 shall cease to apply–
(a)where the person providing the service has before 1st October 2003 made an application for registration of the service under section 7(1) of the Act, on 1st April 2004; or
(b)in any other case, on 1st October 2003.
(3) This article applies to the following care services:–
(a)a child care agency other than one to which article 4(6) of the 2002 Order applies; and
(b)a housing support service,
which is substantially the same as a service, activity or undertaking which was provided or carried on by that person immediately before that date.