“(2)     If, before the commencement day, an application had been made in the prescribed form for the issue of a licence or permit, the renewal or transfer of a licence or approval of an alteration of licensed premises but a final decision had not been made on the application, the application is taken, on and after the commencement day, to have been made in the appropriate approved form.

“(3)     A licence, renewal of licence, memorandum of transfer of a licence or permit in force in the prescribed form before the commencement day shall, on and after the commencement day, be taken to be in the appropriate approved form.

“(4)     This section expires 2 years after the commencement day.”.