New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMUNITY JUSTICE CENTRES ACT 1983 - SECT 19

19 Use of certain words or letters

(1) The words “Community Justice Centre” or the letters “CJC” shall not be used in the name of any centre, organisation, body or group or any other place or establishment, or any part thereof, nor shall any centre, organisation, body or group, or any other place or establishment, or any part thereof, be held out as a Community Justice Centre (whether or not as established under this Act) by the use of the words “Community Justice Centre” or the letters “CJC” or in any other manner:

(a) unless in either case it is in fact a Community Justice Centre established under this Act, or

(b) except in either case with the consent of the Director.

(1A) A person (other than a person holding a current accreditation as a mediator under section 11) must not take or use a name, title or description including a name, title or description that includes the words “Community Justice Centre” or the letters “CJC” that, having regard to the circumstances in which it is taken or used:

(a) indicates, or

(b) is capable of being understood to indicate, or

(c) is calculated to lead a person to infer,

that the person holds a current accreditation as a mediator under this Act.

(2) In this section, a reference to:

(a) the words “Community Justice Centre” includes a reference to those words whether or not they appear consecutively and to words that are substantially the same as those words, and

(b) the letters “CJC” includes a reference to matter that is substantially the same as those letters.