SCHEDULE 12TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

PART 1 PROVISIONS OF THESE REGULATIONS

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1

This paragraph applies to any action taken by a producer or consignor before this paragraph comes into force but which would, if taken after it comes into force, have been a notification which complied with regulation 26, (“a pre-notification”).

2

A pre-notification is to be regarded as notification given upon the coming into force of this paragraph.

3

Regulation 28(1) does not apply to a notification arising out of a pre-notification and that notification takes effect, instead:

a

where the person who gave the pre-notification requested a date for commencement, at the beginning of the date so requested;

b

where no such request was made, at the beginning of the fourth day following the day on which the pre-notification took place;

c

when payment of the relevant fee is received by the Agency;

d

upon the coming into force of this paragraph;

whichever is the later.

4

Where the Agency issues a premises code in respect of premises which are the subject of a pre-notification given pursuant to this paragraph, that code is to be regarded as having been issued on the coming into force of this paragraph.

5

Where the relevant fee is paid to the Agency in respect of a pre-notification, that fee is to be regarded as having been paid for the purposes of regulation 26(7) on the coming into force of this paragraph.