Applications treated as approved
6.—(1)  In the case of a person’s application for approval or for additional premises to be specified in an approval, the person is, upon the Director receiving the application, treated as approved under these Regulations to provide in the course of business a service involving the performing of the regulated activity at the premises specified in the application or those additional premises are treated as specified in the person’s approval (as the case may be) if —
(a)the person holds a PHMCA licence;
(b)those premises are the subject of the PHMCA licence; and
(c)the person states in the person’s application under regulation 5(2)(b), those premises as where the person intends to provide a service involving the performing of the regulated activity to which the application relates.
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(2)  An application —
(a)for approval, other than an application which may be treated as approved under paragraph (1); or
(b)for additional premises to be specified in an approval, being premises not subject to a PHMCA licence,
must be made at least 5 working days before the date the person intends to start providing in the course of business, at the premises stated in the application, a service involving the performing of the regulated activity to which the application relates.
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(3)  In the case of a person’s application mentioned in paragraph (2), the person is treated as approved under these Regulations to provide in the course of business a service involving the performing of the regulated activity at the premises specified in the application or those additional premises are treated as specified in the person’s approval (as the case may be) on the 5th working day after the application is received by the Director unless the Director —
(a)earlier approves the application; or
(b)earlier refuses the application under regulation 7.
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