3. For the period starting on the first appointed date and ending on 31st March 2010, the reference in section 11 of the Act (applications for registration as a service provider) to a person seeking to be registered as a service provider is to be interpreted as a reference to a person who intends to be carrying on, on or after the second appointed date, one or more activities which the person reasonably expects to be prescribed as a regulated activity under section 8 of the Act (“regulated activity”) from the second appointed date.