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Part 2Licences and certificates
Certificates: how to get them

30Expiry and renewal of certificates

  1. Unless cancelled earlier, a certificate expires 5 years from its date of issue.

  2. A certificate may be renewed.

  3. Despite subsection (1), if an application for renewal of a certificate is made before the expiry of the certificate, the certificate continues in force until the application for renewal is determined.

  4. Sections 21 to 28 apply to an application for renewal of a certificate as if the application were an application for a certificate.

  5. A renewed certificate is to be treated for all purposes as a new certificate issued under section 28.

  6. A certificate holder may, at any time, return his or her certificate to a Licensing Authority, in which case the certificate expires on the date it is received by the Licensing Authority.

Notes
  • Section 30(6): amended, on , by section 284 of the Tribunals Powers and Procedures Legislation Act 2018 (2018 No 51).