Paragraph 6 Applications not decided by the relevant date

Subject to paragraph 7, in any case where there was any application to a Primary Care Trust, including an application which it has deferred, by an ophthalmic practitioner for his name to be included in its ophthalmic list or ophthalmic supplementary list and that application has not been decided before the relevant date, that application shall be deemed to be an application to have his name included in the Primary Care Trust’s ophthalmic performers list.