(1) A licensee may apply for the renewal of the licensee’s licence.
(1A)
The licensee must make the application for renewal of the licence before the
day the licence expires.
(2) An application for renewal of a licence must
be—
(a) made in the approved form; and
(b) made personally, in the way
prescribed under a regulation, by—
(i) for a licence issued to an
individual—the licensee; or
(ii) for a licence issued to a body, whether
incorporated or unincorporated—an individual nominated by the body for
endorsement on the licence as the body’s representative in the conduct of
its business or affairs; and
(c) accompanied by the fee prescribed under a
regulation.
(3) If an officer in charge of police receives the application,
the officer must refer the application to an authorised officer.
(4) An
authorised officer must ensure the application is decided—
(a) as soon as
practicable after the application is made; and
(b) if the application is not
decided on or before the day the licence expires—within 42 days after the
day the licence expires.
(5) In deciding the application, the authorised
officer may consider anything at the officer’s disposal.
(6) The authorised
officer must—
(a) approve the application and renew the licence subject to
any conditions the authorised officer may decide; or
(b) reject the
application.
(7) However, if the authorised officer is acting on the basis of
criminal intelligence or other information of the kind mentioned in
section 10B(1) (ca) or 10C(1) , the authorised officer may reject the
application because the person is not a fit and proper person only if the
commissioner or deputy commissioner, acting personally, approves that the
application be rejected on that basis.
(8) A licence may be renewed by—
(a)
endorsing the existing licence; or
(b) cancelling the licence and issuing a
fresh licence endorsed with any condition decided by an authorised officer or
other information.
(9) Section 10(1) , (2) (a) , (2) (c) to (g) and (2A) to
(3) applies to the renewal of a licence.
(10) For applying the provisions
mentioned in subsection (9) to the renewal of a licence, a reference to the
issue of the licence is taken to be a reference to the renewal of the licence.