5(1)This paragraph applies to licence conditions—U.K.
(a)which apply immediately before the appointed day to the universal service provider or other postal operators, and
(b)which contain provision of a kind that (but for this paragraph) could not be contained in any regulatory condition under Part 3.
(2)The provision made by those licence conditions is to be regarded for the purposes of Part 3 as being capable of being imposed by a regulatory condition under that Part (to be known as a “transitory condition”).
(3)Accordingly—
(a)the references in paragraph 4 to initial conditions include transitory conditions, and
(b)paragraph 4(2) and(4) apply in relation to those licence conditions as they apply in relation to other licence conditions.
(4)A transitory condition is (as a result of this sub-paragraph) to be treated as revoked at the time when the first universal postal service order under section 30 comes into force.