New Zealand Legislation: Acts

10 Rules relating to flying of New Zealand Flag

• (1) The Minister may from time to time, either generally or in any particular case, by notice in the Gazette or otherwise, in relation to Government land or buildings, prescribe—

  • (a) the days or occasions on which and the times during which the New Zealand Flag shall be flown:

  • (b) the manner in which the New Zealand Flag is to be flown, including the precedence it is to be accorded in relation to other specified flags or classes of flags:

  • (c) without detracting from the general design depicted in Schedule 1, the standard sizes, dimensions, proportions, and colours of the New Zealand Flag for all or any purposes or in all or any circumstances.

  (2) The Minister may, either in any notice issued under subsection (1) or otherwise, set out for general information and guidance rules of conduct and the etiquette to be followed in the flying or other use of the New Zealand Flag; but no such rules shall have the force of law.

  (3) The notice referred to in Part A of Schedule 2, which may hereafter be cited as the New Zealand Flag Notice 1977, shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to have been given under subsection (1).

  Compare: Flags Act 1953 s 7 (Aust)

  Section 10(1): amended, on 22 October 2003, by section 6 of the Flags, Emblems, and Names Protection Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 73).