(1) This section applies if, immediately before the commencement day, a person holds a permission—
(a) to interfere with a public place or other thing under the Roads and Public Places Act 1937
, section 7 (Damage to or interference with public places and property on them); or
(b) to make an excavation in a public place under the Roads and Public Places Act 1937
, section 8 (Construction of culverts etc in public places); or
(c) under the Roads and Public Places Act 1937
, section 9 (Permission to place culverts etc across, and to interfere with the surfaces of, public places) to make or place a culvert, bridge, crossing or drain across a watertable, watercourse or footpath in, or to open up or break the surface of, any public place.
(2) The permission is, on the commencement day, taken to be a work approval—
(a) in the same terms as the permission; and
(b) subject to the same conditions as the permission.
(3) The work approval—
(a) is taken to expire on the day stated in the permission; and
(b) must not be amended, transferred or renewed.