Regulation 12 Transitional provision
(1)
Where a period of time specified in the 1996 Regulations is current on the appointed day, and a period of time is also specified in a corresponding provision of these Regulations, these Regulations have effect as if the corresponding provision of these Regulations had been in force when the period began to run.
(2)
Except as stated in regulation 11(2)—
(a)
anything done, if effective immediately before the appointed day, has effect after the appointed day as if done under or for the purposes of the corresponding provision of these Regulations; and
(b)
any matter that is ongoing under or for the purposes of the 1996 Regulations immediately before the appointed day is to be treated as ongoing under these Regulations.