Regulation 5 Applications or requests received before 1st July 2021

(1)

This regulation applies to any application or request, which was received by an authority before 1st July 2021 and has yet to be determined and has not been withdrawn on the relevant date, that was for—

(a)

an approval under the 2005 Regulations;

(b)

a renewal of an approval under the 2005 Regulations;

(c)

a review of a decision under regulation 9(1) or 9(2) of the 2005 Regulations;

(d)

modification by a holder of an approval of religious premises under regulation 17(3) of the 2005 Regulations; or

(e)

a review of a decision under regulation 17(8) of the 2005 Regulations;

and such an application or request is referred to in this regulation as a “pre-July 2021 application”.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), a pre-July 2021 application is to be treated on and after the relevant date as an application or request made under the 2005 Regulations as amended by these Regulations.

(3)

For the purposes of a pre-July 2021 application, a reference to “premises” in the following provisions of the 2005 Regulations—

(a)

regulation 3(2)(b);

(b)

regulation 3A(2)(b);

(c)

paragraph 4(a) of Schedule 2, in the first place it occurs;

(d)

paragraph 4(a) of Schedule 2A, in the first place it occurs;

is to be read on and after the relevant date as if it were a reference to “built premises”.