Provisional licence to continue service

Where a person has, within one month of the date when the provisions of these Regulations as to the applications for licences came into operation, duly applied for a licence authorising him to perform such journeys as may be necessary to enable him to continue to operate any air service, and satisfies the Licensing Authority that he was immediately before that date, operating that service, the Licensing Authority shall grant to the applicant a provisional licence authorizing him to continue to operate that service and such provisional licence shall remain in force– (a) if the application is granted: until the date from which the licence is expressed to take effect; or 283 (b) if the application is refused: for a period of three months from the date of the decision of