(1) This section applies if—
(a) an application is made under section 63 (Application for trapping permit) by a trapping permit-holder; and
(b) the application is for renewal of the trapping permit-holder's trapping permit; and
(c) the application is made not later than 14 days before the day the trapping permit term ends.
(2) The trapping permit remains in force, subject to this Act, until the application is decided under section 64 (Decision about trapping permit application).
(3) If the authority grants the trapping permit applied for, the renewal of the permit begins on the day after the day the permit being renewed ends.
(4) A suspended trapping permit may be renewed, but the renewed permit is suspended until the suspension ends.
(5) In this section:
"renewal", of a trapping permit, means the grant of the permit that is to begin on the day after the day the permit being renewed ends.