7.—(1) This article applies only to a person—
(a)who makes an advance application to vary an existing licence which is granted (in whole or in part) by the Commission; and
(b)to whom no continuation licence was issued on 1st October 2014.
(2) Upon the grant of the advance application for variation, the applicant must pay to the Commission, within 30 days, the difference between—
(a)the prescribed first annual fee under section 100(1)(a) for the kind of remote operating licence held by the applicant following the grant of the application; and
(b)such proportion of the last prescribed annual fee paid for the existing licence as relates to the period between the date on which the application for variation was granted and the next anniversary of the issue of that licence.
(3) The annual fee under section 100(1)(b) of the 2005 Act for the remote operating licence as varied must be paid before the first anniversary of the date of grant of the application and before the same date in each year thereafter.