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Sport and Recreation New Zealand Act 2002

Sport and Recreation New Zealand - Key provisions about Agency

12: Protection of name

You could also call this:

"Don't use a name that is the same or similar to Sport and Recreation New Zealand for your group or business."

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You cannot start a new group or business with a name that is the same as Sport and Recreation New Zealand. You also cannot use a name that is very similar to Sport and Recreation New Zealand, because it might confuse people. You cannot trade or do business under the name Sport and Recreation New Zealand, unless you are the Agency. You also cannot use a name that is very similar to the Agency's name, if you know it might confuse people. If you break this rule, you can get in trouble and have to pay a fine of up to $1,000, and $100 for every day you keep doing it. But if you can prove you have been using the name for a long time, even before this law started, you might have a defence against getting in trouble.

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Part 2Sport and Recreation New Zealand
Key provisions about Agency

12Protection of name

  1. No body may be incorporated or registered, under any enactment or in any other manner,—

  2. under the name Sport and Recreation New Zealand; or
    1. under any other name that so resembles the name of the Agency as to be likely to mislead any person.

      1. No person other than the Agency may, either alone or with any other person or persons,—

      2. trade or carry on business under the name Sport and Recreation New Zealand; or
        1. trade or carry on business under any other name, knowing that the name so resembles the name of the Agency as to be likely to mislead any person.

          1. Every person who contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $100 for every day or part of a day during which the offence continues.

          2. It is a defence in any prosecution for an offence against subsection (3) if the defendant proves that, either alone or with any other person or persons, the defendant has carried on business continuously under the name to which the prosecution relates from any date before the commencement of this Act.

          Notes
          • Section 12(3): amended, on , by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).