Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, a local authority may, on an application made after the appointed date by any person (other than the local authority), and with the consent of the Minister, give a direction dispensing with or relaxing any requirement of building byelaws, and the Minister may, on such an application by a local authority, give such a direction in their favour.

Subsection (4) of section six and sections seven and eight of this Act, and Part I of this Schedule, shall apply in relation to any application or direction under this paragraph as if references to building regulations included references to building byelaws, and as if an application or direction under this paragraph were an application or direction under the said section six.

Any application for the relaxation of or dispensation with the requirements of a building byelaw under section sixty-three of the Public Health Act, 1936, which is pending at the appointed date shall have effect after the appointed date as if it were an application under sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph.

Where under the said section sixty-three notice of any proposed relaxation or dispensation has been given before the appointed date, no notice need be published or given under section eight of this Act as regards that relaxation or dispensation.