You have a licence that lasts for one year. It will expire after one year, unless it is cancelled sooner under section 55A(3) or section 83, or as stated in section 55G. You can get a new licence to replace an old one, and the new one will last for one year from the date the old one was supposed to expire. If you apply for a new licence before the old one expires, the old one will keep working until your application is decided.

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52: Effect of licences, or

"What a medicine licence allows you to do"

54: Display of licences, or

"Showing Your Medicine Licence"

Part 3Provisions relating to licences

53Duration of licences

Subject to subsections (2) and (3) and to section 55G, every licence, unless sooner cancelled under section 55A(3) or section 83, continues in force for a period of 1 year and then expires.
Any licence issued within the period of 2 months preceding the date of expiration of an existing licence that it is intended to supersede shall continue in force for a period of 1 year beginning on that date.
If a licensee applies for a new licence not more than 3 months and not less than 1 month before the date of expiration of an existing licence that the new licence is intended to supersede, and the application is not disposed of before that date, the existing licence shall continue in force until the application is disposed of.

Compare

1960 No 97 s 18
1979 No 27 s 38

Notes

Section 53(1): substituted, on 18 September 2004, by section 16 of the Medicines Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 50).