Do you have to replace an Authorising Officer (AO) if the AO leaves and the sponsor licence is already dormant?

The Practice Note: Workers and Temporary Workers sponsor duties and adapting human resources systems confirms that ‘Sponsor duties begin on the day the licence is granted and end when the licence is surrendered, revoked or made dormant’. The Sponsor Guidance, Part 3, para C1.6 confirms that when the Home Office make a licence dormant this is a positive act by them (‘for example, when you have been taken over by another organisation’). It will not cover a situation where a licence is simply not being used by the sponsor, eg where it has sponsored a worker, that worker has left, and nothing else has then happened (and the sponsor has not surrendered its licence). For more details on how and when the Home Office