If -
(a) before 11th April 2002 any steps were taken in relation to a draft of rules which the Authority proposes to make under article 9G(1) or 9H of the principal Order (as inserted by article 4 of this Order), and
(b) those steps, had they been taken after that day, would to any extent have satisfied the requirements of section 155 of the Act,
those requirements are to that extent to be taken to have been satisfied.