If an application for the registration in the old register of the assignment or transmission of an existing registered mark was pending immediately before 1 January 1996, this Act applies in relation to the application as if:
(a) it were an application under section 109 for a record of the assignment or transmission to be entered in the Register; and
(b) that application was filed on 1 January 1996.
Note: For old register , existing registered mark and file see section 6.