(1) Paragraphs (2) to (4) apply if, before 1st April 2014 -
(a) the OFT had given a notice to a person ("A") of its determination to refuse to issue a standard licence to A in accordance with A's application, and
(b) the appeal period in relation to that decision had not ended.
(2) The notice is to be treated as -
(a) if A does not have a Part 4A permission, a decision notice given under section 55X(4) [Section 55X was inserted by the Financial Services Act 2012, section 11.] of the Act by the FCA to A of the decision to refuse A's application for Part 4A permission;
(b) in any other case, a decision notice given under section 55X(4) of the Act of the decision of the appropriate regulator to refuse A's application to vary A's Part 4A permission.
(3) But if A had, before 1st April 2014, submitted a notice of appeal to the First-tier Tribunal under section 41 of the 1974 Act (appeals to First-tier Tribunal under Part 3) [Section 41 was amended by the Enterprise Act 2002, Schedule 25, par
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