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20.—(1) On and after 1st October 2007 sections 260 to 264 of the Companies Act 2006 (derivative claims in England and Wales or Northern Ireland) apply to all derivative claims, subject to the following provisions.
(2) Those sections do not apply, and the law in force immediately before 1st October 2007 continues to apply, where the claimant (in Northern Ireland, the plaintiff) has applied for permission (in Northern Ireland, leave) to continue the claim before that date.
(3) If, or to the extent that, the claim arises from acts or omissions that occurred before 1st October 2007, the court must exercise its powers under those sections so as to secure that the claim is allowed to proceed as a derivative claim only if, or to the extent that, it would have been allowed to proceed as a derivative claim under the law in force immediately before that date.
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