New Zealand Acts

MEDICINES ACT 1981 - SECT 53

53 Duration of licences

1 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.

2 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.

3 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.

Note: 1960 No 97 s 18 ; 1979 No 27 s 38

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