3.1.5.8 Commercial words and names

Section 20 of the Flags, Emblems and Names Protection Act 1981 prohibits the use of certain commercial words and names unless the use is expressly authorised:

• By or under any other Act; or
• By the Governor-General by Order in Council.
  

Section 20 covers the following words and names:

• DSIR;
• Department of Scientific and industrial research;
• Ruakura;
• Wheat Research Institute;
• New Zealand Soil Bureau;
• New Zealand Oceanographic Institute;
• Soil Conservation Centre;
• Physics and Engineering Laboratory;
• Institute of Nuclear Sciences;
• Dominion Physical Laboratory;
• NECAL;
• NZGS;
• Animal Research Laboratory;
• Agricultural Research Centre;
• Management Consultancy Services;
• MAF;
• New Zealand Communicable Disease Centre;
• Any word or name that so closely resembles any of the above as to be likely to deceive or mislead any person.

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