(1) A licence or authority has effect until the date specified in it, unless it is renewed or cancelled.(2) Where an application for the renewal of a licence or authority is refused (a) that licence or authority continues in force until the expiration of the period ordinarily limited for the bringing of an appeal against that refusal; and(b) if such an appeal is brought, the licence or authority continues until the final determination or abandonment of that appeal.(3) A licence issued to a person to carry on business as a manufacturing chemist ceases to have effect upon that person ceasing to be a qualified person.(4) A licence to grow a prohibited plant issued under section 52 of the Act in a certain year ceases to have effect on 31 December in the following year.