OLYMPIC INSIGNIA PROTECTION ACT 1987 - SECT 76 Regulations

OLYMPIC INSIGNIA PROTECTION ACT 1987 - SECT 76

    The Governor - General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters:

  (a)   required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

  (b)   necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

•   Chapter   2 of this Act protects the olympic insignia by:

  (a)   making the AOC the owner of copyright in the olympic symbol; and

  (b)   making the AOC the owner of certain olympic designs; and

  (c)   providing that the use of the olympic motto, the olympic symbol and certain other olympic images is to be taken to be contrary to law in certain circumstances.

•   Chapter   3 of this Act prohibits the commercial use of certain olympic expressions unless the user holds a licence granted by the AOC.