New Zealand Antarctic Institute Act 1996

11 Protection of names

• (1) No body other than the Institute and the Board shall be incorporated or registered under any other enactment or in any other manner, under the following names:

  • (a) New Zealand Antarctic Institute:

  • (b) Ross Dependency Research Committee:

  • (c) New Zealand Antarctic Programme:

  • (d) any other name that so resembles any name listed in paragraphs (a) to (c), as to be likely to mislead any person.

  (2) No person other than the Institute and the Board shall, either alone or with any other person or persons,—

  • (a) trade or carry on business under any name listed in paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (1); or

  • (b) trade or carry on business under any other name, knowing that that name so resembles any name listed in paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (1), as to be likely to mislead any person.

  (3) Every person who contravenes subsection (2) commits an offence and is liable on summary 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.