This Part applies to cross-border mergers where -

(a) at least one merging company is an Irish company, and

(b) other than an Irish company that is a successor company in the case of a merger by formation of a new company, the Irish company delivers the documents referred to in Regulation 33(1) or (3), as the case may be, to the Registrar on or after the date on which these Regulations come into operation.