Paragraph 17 Certificates of registration in respect of transferred registrations

This paragraph applies in relation to any person whose registration is transferred under paragraph 16(2).

The transfer shall not constitute a grant of registration for the purposes of paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 9A.

A certificate issued by a local authority to that person in relation to the original registration and current immediately before the operative date shall, subject to sub-paragraphs (4) and (5) of this paragraph, have effect for all purposes as if issued on the operative date pursuant to paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 9A.

Paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 9A shall not have effect in relation to a certificate to which sub-paragraph (3) refers.

For the purposes of paragraph 6(3) of Schedule 9A and without prejudice to its effect otherwise, the occasion of the first inspection following the operative date by a registered inspector or authorised person of—

provided by a person to whom this paragraph applies shall be taken to constitute a change of circumstances for the purposes of that paragraph in relation to the registration concerned.