| (1) | The council or a committee of the council to whom the function has been delegated may authorise the registrar to cancel a permit issued to— |
| (a) | who has failed to notify the registrar of his or her present address, within a period of three months from the date of an inquiry sent by the registrar by certified mail or electronic transmission to the address appearing in the council's records in respect of such person; or |
| (b) | who has failed to pay the prescribed annual permit fee on a date when it became due in terms of regulation 5(2). |
| (2) | The registrar must issue the notice of cancellation and forward it to the person contemplated in subregulation (1) by way of certified mail or electronic transmission to the address appearing in the council's records in respect of such person. |
| (3) | As from the date of issue of the notice referred to in subregulation (2) and its receipt by the person concerned— |
| (a) | any permit issued in terms of the Act to the person concerned must be deemed to be cancelled; and |
| (b) | such person must immediately cease to manufacture, import, buy or be in possession of unmounted artificial teeth for the purpose of supplying such artificial teeth to a dentist, a clinical dental technologist, a dental technician contractor or a person who is the holder of a permit, as the case may be, until such time as such person's permit is restored. |
| (4) | A permit which is cancelled on account of non-payment of an annual permit fee may be restored if the holder of such permit submits an application for restoration substantially in accordance with Appendix A and pays a restoration fee equivalent to— |
| (a) | two times the annual fee due by that person plus the outstanding fees due by that person, if the application for restoration is submitted within a period of six (6) months after the date on which the permit concerned was cancelled; |
| (b) | five times the annual fee due by that person plus the outstanding fees due by that person, if the application for restoration is submitted after a period of six (6) months has expired after the date on which the permit concerned was cancelled. |
[Regulation 5A inserted by section 5 of Notice No. 340, GG44462, dated 19 April 2021]
