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Vanuatu Consolidated Legislation - 1988 |
Commencement: 30 July 1980
LAWS OF THE REPUBLIC OF VANUATU
REVISED EDITION 1988
CHAPTER 107
STATE FLAG AND ARMORIAL BEARINGS
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
2. Prohibition
3. Restriction on proceedings
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STATE FLAG AND ARMORIAL BEARINGS
To provide for the protection of the State Flag and Armorial Bearings, State Emblem and Presidential Standard.
INTERPRETATION
1. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -
"Armorial Bearings" means the Armorial Bearings or State Emblem of Vanuatu as published by the Minister in the Gazette;
"Minister" means the minister responsible for the protection of the State Flag, Armorial Bearings, and Presidential Standard;
"Presidential Standard" means the standard of the President of the Republic of Vanuatu as published by the Minister in the Gazette;
"State Flag" means the State Flag of the Republic of Vanuatu as published by the Minister in the Gazette.
PROHIBITION
(b) use in connection with any business, trade, calling or profession;
any copy of the State Flag, the Presidential Standard or the Armorial Bearings, or a thing so closely resembling any of them as to lead to the belief that the thing is one of them.
(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of VT50,000.
(3) The court before which any person is convicted of an offence under subsection (2) may, in addition to imposing any other punishment, order that any thing by means or in respect of which the offence was committed shall be forfeited.
RESTRICTION OF PROCEEDINGS
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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
PUBLIC DECLARATION (19/3/1980)
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