7. Where a transport operator—
(a)holds a deemed safety certificate or deemed safety authorisation; and
(b)the control of the operation in question is transferred to another person after 1st October 2006 so that regulation 2(7) of the 2000 Regulations would have operated to treat that other person as a successor had it still been in force,
then that other person may rely upon the deemed safety certificate or safety authorisation and if he does so rely shall comply with the provisions of these Regulations as though he were the holder of that deemed safety certificate or safety authorisation for a period of 6 months from the date he becomes a successor and may do so notwithstanding the prior expiry of such a certificate or authorisation in accordance with paragraph 5.