All applications for site plan or subdivision approval filed prior to the effective date of this chapter may be continued without the need for refiling. However, all such pending applications for minor subdivision approval and for site plan and major subdivision approval shall be granted preliminary or final approval, as the case may be, only if the requirements of this chapter are met, except for payment of fees, exclusive of inspection fees, required to be paid at the time of filing of any such application and except to the extent prohibited by law with respect to applications for final major subdivision approval of major subdivisions granted preliminary approval prior to the effective date of this chapter. The subdivision, zoning and related land use regulations of the Township in effect immediately prior to the effective date of this chapter shall govern all such applications not controlled by the requirements of this chapter.