New Zealand Legislation: Acts

24 Restriction on use of certain names

• (1) No person or association of persons, whether a body corporate or not, may have or use any name calculated to suggest connection with, or endorsement by, the Board or a racing code, or any name containing the words—

  • (a) “New Zealand Racing Board”; or

  • (b) “Totalisator Agency Board” or “TAB”; or

  • (c) “Racing Conference” or “New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing”; or

  • (d) “Trotting Conference” or “Harness Racing New Zealand”; or

  • (e) “New Zealand Greyhound Racing Association”.

  (2) If an Act provides for the registration of any association of persons, the registering authority may refuse registration if, in its opinion, the use of the name by which the association wishes to be registered is prohibited by subsection (1).

  (3) This section applies, with the necessary modifications, to a person carrying on business under any name or style except his or her own.

  (4) Subsection (1)(a) and (b) does not apply to the Board.

  (5) Subsection (1)(c) does not apply to New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing Incorporated.

  (6) Subsection (1)(d) does not apply to Harness Racing New Zealand Incorporated.

  (7) Subsection (1)(e) does not apply to the New Zealand Greyhound Racing Association (Incorporated).

  (8) Nothing in this section prevents a racing club from having or using a name containing the word or words “racing”, “thoroughbred racing”, “harness racing”, “trotting”, or “greyhound racing” in any form except those specified in subsection (1).

  Compare: 1971 No 155 s 29