Publishing unapproved place name
15 Publishing unapproved place name
A person must not, in trade or commerce—
publish a document; or
authorise the publication in a document of an advertisement or statement;
in which a name that is not an approved name of a place is represented as the place’s name.Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.
Subsection (1) does not apply—
if it is clear from the document, advertisement or statement that the name is not an approved name of the place or the place does not have an approved name; or
if the document is a newspaper printed under the Printing and Newspapers Act 1981—to the printer or publisher of the newspaper; or
if the name is part of a business name.
In this section—trade or commerce includes—
a business or professional activity; and
a single transaction for the sale of property.
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