(1) An application for the approval of a production equipment and safety system submitted to the Minister under the Schedule that is not determined before the commencement must be assessed as if the Schedule had not been revoked.
(2) The following are taken to be approved petroleum surface infrastructure plans under section 61A of the Act:
(a) an approved production equipment and safety system in force under the Schedule immediately before the commencement;
(b) a production equipment and safety system approved as a production equipment and safety system on or after the commencement on account of the operation of subregulation (1).
(3) A licensee who has the benefit of subregulation (2) must submit to the Minister, for approval, a petroleum surface infrastructure plan under the Act, as amended by the amending Act, within 6 months after the production equipment and safety system comes within the ambit of that subregulation.
(4) Subregulation (2) ceases to apply in a particular case if the licensee:
(a) fails to make an application for the approval of a petroleum surface infrastructure plan in accordance with subregulation (3); or
(b) makes an application for the approval of a petroleum surface infrastructure plan but the Minister is unable to approve the plan under section 61A of the Act as inserted by the amending Act.