Paragraph 36 Anticipatory steps towards compliance with any requirementI1

If before this Order comes into force the undertaker or any other person takes any steps intended to be steps towards compliance with any provision of this Schedule, those steps must be taken into account for the purpose of determining compliance with that provision if they would have been valid steps for that purpose had they been taken after this Order came into force.

Any document submitted to the relevant planning authority which the undertaker considers may constitute a step referred to at sub-paragraph (1) must include a statement that it is likely to engage sub-paragraph (1).