(1) Where the holder of a permission, licence, permit, or order referred to in either section 389(1) or section 389(2) (in this section called an approval), before the expiry of the approval and before 1 January 1992, made an application for a new approval or resource consent for the same activity, that application shall be deemed to have been made at least 6 months before the expiry of the original approval; and the provisions of section 124 shall apply accordingly.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, for the purposes of subsection (1) the date of application shall be the date on which the application was lodged with the then appropriate consent authority, and not the date on which it was received by the relevant consent authority under this Act.