Renew, vary or revoke

As your previous practising certificate has expired, you are unable to renew it. You must apply for a new practising certificate. This requires you to provide current certified identification documents:

• 1 Group A document
• 1 Group B document

The Fact Sheet: Certifying documents and identity verification (PDF, 201.49 KB) shows who can certify on your behalf.

If you have recently acquired portal access, you may use the same certified ID documents you submitted for that purpose.

Once we review your completed application, a s155 will be issued in due course. This also means you must not work in that statutory function as you no longer have a valid practising certificate.

The s155 asks you to include your log for your maintenance of competence for the 5 year period of that practising certificate (the Maintenance of Competence guide (PDF, 867.42 KB) tells you the required hours for your statutory function – refer pages 16-18). Please read this in full as it will answer many questions around learning hours including the breakdown of allowable topics to be claimed. 

You can find a sample log book here (XLSX, 441.47 KB): however please do not to send it in until you have received your s155 notice and attach it to the other questions within the notice. 

Before contacting us, please ensure you have read the following in full:

• The notice 
• The MoC guide
• The sample log book document

Staff cannot provide information beyond what is contained in these resources. If you have questions not addressed in the above, please email mca@regional.nsw.gov.au noting "Attention S155 notice" in the subject line.

We will respond to your email as promptly as possible. However, if your question is already answered in the provided materials, you will be directed back to that information.

The notice is issued to the email noted in our system; you have 24 hours to respond to that as ‘acknowledged’.

You must reply to the notice with your completed documentation in full (not submitted separately) and it will be reviewed in due course. Notices are processed in the order we receive them and will not be escalated for any reason. If your responses are not satisfactory, we may either ask you to resubmit or decline your responses with feedback.

The notice cannot be extended, therefore if you do not respond by the due date, the notice will be closed, along with your application, and a refusal letter sent. This means you are not able to work in the statutory function without a valid practising certificate.

If you still wish to pursue a practising certificate after the notice has been closed, you will be required to complete a new application and pay another fee and will be issued a second notice and will need to follow the same (original) steps as above.

We send reminders out to the email noted in our system (which you are required to update as needed), at 3 months prior to your current practising certificate expiring. You may apply any time from 6 months before expiry.

It is up to you to ensure you do not let your practising certificate expire. The responsibility sits with you, not your employer or any other person/company.

We recommend you start a new log with your new practising certificate dates, by opening a new tab on the same log sheet if you wish. This will keep each 5-year practising certificate together in each tab.