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Part 3Miscellaneous provisions
Use of official geographic names

32Official geographic names must be used

  1. If there is an official geographic name for a geographic feature or Crown protected area, that name must be used in all official documents.

  2. If 2 or more alternative official geographic names exist for the same geographic feature or Crown protected area, the use of any 1 of those names, or all of those names, is sufficient to comply with subsection (1).

  3. However, subsection (1) does not apply if an official document containing a name other than an official geographic name states that the particular name is not the official geographic name of the geographic feature or Crown protected area to which it applies.

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Notes
  • Section 32(1A): inserted, on , by section 6 of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Amendment Act 2012 (2012 No 110).