After section 83--
insert--
'(1) Subsection (2) applies if, before the commencement--
(a) a person has appealed to a tribunal under the Planning Act, section 4.2.9, about an application for which section 22C as in force before the commencement applied; and
(b) the appeal has not been decided.
'(2) The tribunal may hear, or continue to hear, and decide the appeal as if the Land and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2007, part 9, had not commenced.
'(3) In this section--
commencement means the day this section commences.'.