20. Saving and transitional provisions for existing authorised organisations under Regulation of Imports and Exports Regulations

This section applies to any organisation that, immediately before the appointed date, is specified as an authorised organisation in the Fifth Schedule to the Regulation of Imports and Exports Regulations (Rg 1).

Despite anything in this Act, the organisation is treated as authorised on the appointed date under section 10A(2)(a) of the principal Act (as in force on the appointed date) as an authorised certificate issuer for the issue of any non‑preferential certificate of origin that the organisation may issue under its authorisation.

Any conditions that apply to the organisation immediately before the appointed date pursuant to regulation 23(2) and (3) of the Regulation of Imports and Exports Regulations, are treated as imposed under section 10C(1) of the principal Act (as in force on the appointed date) on the authorisation in subsection (2).

An application for a non‑preferential certificate of origin made under regulation 24(1) of the Regulation of Imports and Exports Regulations before the appointed date to the organisation, and is pending immediately before the appointed date, is treated for the purposes of the Act as an application for the issue of a non‑preferential certificate of origin made to the organisation as an authorised certificate issuer authorised under section 10A(2)(a) of the principal Act (as in force on the appointed date).