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AGENTS ACT 2003 - SECT 37

Continuation of existing licences until the renewal applications decided

    (1)     If a licensed agent applies to renew a licence under section 36, the licence remains in force until the application is decided.

    (2)     Subsection (1) applies even if it causes the existing licence to be in force for longer than 1 year.

    (3)     If a person who has been a licensed agent applies, within 3 months after the day the term of the licence ends (the last licence day ), to renew the licence—

        (a)     any service provided by the person after the last licence day and before the day of the commissioner for fair trading's decision about the renewal application (whether or not the licence is renewed) is taken to have been provided by the person as a licensed agent; and

        (b)     if the licence is renewed, the term of the renewed licence is backdated to the day after the last licence day.

    (4)     Subsection (3) (a) does not prevent the person committing, being prosecuted for, or being found guilty of, an offence against division 3.1 (Agents to be licensed).



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