(1) Every licence, unless it has been terminated in accordance with this Act, may from time to time be renewed in accordance with this section.
(2) An application for the renewal of a licence shall be made by the licensee in writing, in the prescribed form (if any) and with one additional copy, to the Registrar.
(3) The application shall be made not earlier than the 1st day of January, and not later than the last day of February, in the year in which the licence will expire.
(4) On an application for the renewal of a licence, the Registrar may require the applicant (except where it is a company) to submit to him 2 additional identical photographs of the applicant.
(5) After the application has been filed with the Registrar, it shall be advertised and a copy shall be served on the Police, in the same way as if it were an application for a licence.
(6) The application shall not be heard before the expiry of 1 month after subsection (5) has been complied with.
(7) The police may, before the expiry of 1 month after subsection (5) has been complied with, file with the Registrar a notice of objection to the application in the same way as if it were an application for a licence.
(8) Any person other than a member of the police may, before the expiry of 1 month after subsection (5) has been complied with, file with the Registrar a notice of objection to the application, on the same grounds and in the same way as if it were an application for a licence.
(9) The application shall be heard and determined in the same way as if it were an application for a licence and, subject to subsections (7) and (8), the provisions of sections 22 to 25, subsections (1), (2), and (3) of section 26, section 27, and section 30 shall, with any necessary modifications, apply accordingly in respect of the application for the renewal of the licence.
(10) The Registrar may hear and determine an application for the renewal of a licence, or any objection to its renewal, notwithstanding that the application or the notice of objection is not filed within the time limit specified in this section, as long as the application or notice, as the case may be, is filed before the date of expiry of the licence.
(11) Where the Registrar grants an application for the renewal of a licence he shall, on payment of the prescribed fee (if any), issue a renewed licence accordingly.
(12) Where an application for the renewal of a licence has been made but not determined before the licence expires, the licence shall continue in force until the application is determined by the Registrar.
Section 33 was substituted, as from 18 October 1978, by section 14 Private Investigators and Security Guards Amendment Act 1978 (1978 No 83).
Subsections (7) and (8) were substituted, as from 15 November 2000, by section 3 Private Investigators and Security Guards Amendment Act 2000 (2000 No 77)
Subsection (12) was amended, as from 1 July 1995, by section 6 Private Investigators and Security Guards Amendment Act 1995 (1995 No 14) by omitting the words “and a bond that complies with section 19 of this Act is for the time being in effect in respect of the licence”
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