Suspension orders7.

(1)

Where—

(a)

before the relevant date; or

(b)

on or after the relevant date pursuant to Schedule 2 to the Opticians Order or this Order,

a suspension order has been made pursuant to the old Part 3 (disciplinary proceedings) in respect of—

(i)

a person’s registration in the register, or

(ii)

a body corporate’s enrolment in the list of bodies corporate,

that suspension shall continue for the period specified in the suspension order as a suspension from the appropriate register referred to in the new section 7 (registers of opticians) or, in respect of a body corporate, as a suspension from the register of bodies corporate maintained under the new section 9(1) (list of bodies corporate carrying on business as opticians).