New Zealand Flag Referendums (First Flag Referendum) Order 2015
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New Zealand Flag Referendums (First Flag Referendum) Order 2015
(LI 2015/206)
New Zealand Flag Referendums (First Flag Referendum) Order 2015: revoked, on the close of 30 March 2018, pursuant to section 4(1) of the New Zealand Flag Referendums Act 2015 (2015 No 66).
Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General
Order in Council
At Wellington this 31st day of August 2015
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council
Note
The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.
Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.
This order is administered by the Ministry of Justice.
Pursuant to sections 11 and 13 of the New Zealand Flag Referendums Act 2015 and section 21(2) of the Referenda (Postal Voting) Act 2000 as applied by section 18(1)(b) of the New Zealand Flag Referendums Act 2015, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following order.
Order
1 Title
This order is the New Zealand Flag Referendums (First Flag Referendum) Order 2015.
2 Commencement
This order comes into force on 1 September 2015.
3 Closing of referendum roll
The date for the closing of the referendum roll for the first flag referendum is Friday 23 October 2015.
4 Close of first flag referendum
The date for the close of the first flag referendum is Friday 11 December 2015.
5 Alternative flag designs
(1)
The images of the 5 alternative flag designs that are to appear on the voting paper for the first flag referendum are the images depicted in Part 1 of the Schedule.
(2)
The official descriptions of the 5 alternative flag designs, to be used for the purposes of dictating the relevant parts of the voting paper under section 24(4)(c) of the New Zealand Flag Referendums Act 2015, are set out in Part 2 of the Schedule.
(3)
The technical specifications of the 5 alternative flag designs are set out in Part 3 of the Schedule.
Clause 5: inserted, on 2 October 2015, by clause 4 of the New Zealand Flag Referendums (First Flag Referendum) Amendment Order 2015 (LI 2015/223).
Schedule Alternative flag designs
Schedule: inserted, on 2 October 2015, by clause 5 of the New Zealand Flag Referendums (First Flag Referendum) Amendment Order 2015 (LI 2015/223).
Part 1 Images
Silver fern (black and white)
Silver fern (black and white)
Silver fern (red, white, and blue)
Silver fern (red, white, and blue)
Koru
Koru
Silver fern (black, white, and blue)
Silver fern (black, white, and blue)
Red peak
Red peak
Part 2 Official descriptions
Silver fern (black and white)
The dominant feature of this flag is a black and white fern frond. The fern frond sweeps diagonally up from the bottom left corner to the top right corner of the flag. The leaves and the stem on the top side of the fern are black on a white background. The leaves and the stem on the bottom side are white on a black background.
Silver fern (red, white, and blue)
The dominant feature of this flag is a white fern frond that sweeps up diagonally from the bottom left corner to the right of the top centre. The left side of the fern is on a red background. To the right of the fern, there are 4 stars, in the formation of the Southern Cross constellation, on a blue background. Each star is red with a white border and has 5 points.
Koru
The right half of this flag is black. At the halfway point of the flag, the black forms a koru on a white background. The black koru spirals down and to the left from the top of the flag.
Silver fern (black, white, and blue)
The dominant feature of this flag is a white fern frond that sweeps up diagonally from the bottom left corner to the right of the top centre. The left side of the fern is on a black background. To the right of the fern, there are 4 stars, in the formation of the Southern Cross constellation, on a blue background. Each star is red with a white border and has 5 points.
Red peak
In the centre of this flag are two thick white diagonal lines. They start in the left and right bottom corners and meet in the centre top, forming an upside-down V shape. The spaces around the shape form triangles. The triangle in the centre of the shape is red, the triangle to the left of the upside-down V shape is black, and the triangle to the right is blue.
Part 3 Technical specifications
Silver fern (black and white)
The flag proportion is 2:3 and the device on the flag is a stylised fern [A].
The fern device has 29 leaflets. The stem originates at the bottom of the hoist and the final leaflet finishes at the top of the fly.
The leaflets and the stem on the top side of the fern device are black on a white background. The leaflets and the stem on the bottom side of the fern device are white on a black background.
The colours are white (Pantone SAFE) in the areas marked “1” and black (Pantone BLACK) in the areas marked “2”.
Technical diagram showing the measurements required for accurate construction of the silver fern (black and white)
Silver fern (red, white, and blue)
The flag proportion is 1:2 and the devices on the flag are a stylised fern [A] and the Southern Cross constellation [B].
The fern device is white, has 33 leaflets, and sits within an area measuring eleven-hundred-and-eighty-five by nine-hundred eighteen-hundredths of the hoist of the flag. The background on the top side of the fern device is red. The background on the bottom side of the fern device is blue.
The Southern Cross device sits within an area measuring five-hundred-and-thirty-three by six-hundred-and-ninety-one eighteen-hundredths of the fly of the flag. Each of the 4 red stars in the Southern Cross device has 5 points and a white border.
The colours are white (Pantone SAFE) in the areas marked “1”, red (Pantone 186C) in the areas marked “2”, and blue (Pantone 280C) in the area marked “3”.
Technical diagram showing the measurements required for accurate construction of the silver fern (red, white and blue)
Koru
The flag proportion is 1:2 and the device on the flag is a stylised koru [A].
The black koru device sits on a white background within an area measuring nine-hundred by nine-hundred eighteen-hundredths of the hoist of the flag.
The colours are white (Pantone SAFE) in the area marked “1” and black (Pantone BLACK) in the area marked “2”.
Technical diagram showing the measurements required for accurate construction of the koru
Silver fern (black, white, and blue)
The flag proportion is 1:2 and the devices on the flag are a stylised fern [A] and the Southern Cross constellation [B].
The fern device is white, has 33 leaflets, and sits within an area measuring eleven-hundred-and-eighty-five by nine-hundred eighteen-hundredths of the hoist of the flag. The background on the top side of the fern device is black. The background on the bottom side of the fern device is blue.
The Southern Cross device sits within an area measuring five-hundred-and-thirty-three by six-hundred-and-ninety-one eighteen-hundredths of the fly of the flag. Each of the 4 red stars in the Southern Cross device has 5 points and a white border.
The colours are white (Pantone SAFE) in the areas marked “1”, red (Pantone 186C) in the area marked “2”, blue (Pantone 286C) in the area marked “3”, and black (Pantone BLACK) in the area marked “4”.
Technical diagram showing the measurements required for accurate construction of the silver fern (black, white and blue)
Red peak
The flag proportion is 1:2 and the device on the flag is a chevron [A].
The chevron device is white and the width of the line is three hundred-and-twenty eighteen-hundredths of the fly of the flag. The left side originates at the bottom left quarter of the fly, the right side originates at the bottom right quarter of the fly, and the centre point is at the centre top of the fly. The background on the bottom side of the chevron device is red. The background on the left side of the chevron device is black. The background on the right side of the chevron device is blue.
The colours are white (Pantone SAFE) in the area marked “1”, black (Pantone BLACK) in the area marked “2”, red (Pantone 186C) in the area marked “3”, and blue (Pantone 280C) in the area marked “4”.
Technical diagram showing the measurements required for accurate construction of the Red Peak
Michael Webster,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Date of notification in Gazette: 3 September 2015.
Notes
1 General
This is a consolidation of the New Zealand Flag Referendums (First Flag Referendum) Order 2015 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.
2 Legal status
A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.
Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.
3 Editorial and format changes
The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.
4 Amendments incorporated in this consolidation
New Zealand Flag Referendums Act 2015 (2015 No 66): section 4(1)
New Zealand Flag Referendums (First Flag Referendum) Amendment Order 2015 (LI 2015/223)
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