PET NAME done away with the passing of Interpretation Amendment Bill. It beggars belief that some of Fiji's so-called top Lawyers thought is was FINE for NIKOLAU TUIQAMEA to drive around Fiji as NIKO NAWAIKULA

Fijileaks: We wonder if these LAWYERS (including Tuiqamea) have been approving multi-million dollar corporate deals between Charlie Banana and Charlie Guava because these clients want to be referred to in legal documents by their PET NAMES. Go search for Nikolau Tuiqamea in the PacLII legal website and you will not find him convicted and fined under that name. What nonsense?

*The Interpretation Amendment Bill amends the Act to require those who are authorised or required by any written law to provide their name, to only provide their name as it appears on their birth certificate. This requirement extends to any form of identification provided by a person where such form of identification must state the name as it appears on the person’s birth certificate.

*It also requires any agency or approving authority of any kind which receives applications or submissions to only accept the name of an applicant if the name is as it appears on the applicant’s birth certificate.

*There is a transitional period where these provisions will ensure that certificates, licences, permits, deeds and other documents which refer to names of people that are different from the names on their birth certificates, continue in existence if they do not have an expiration date.

*On the other hand, if such documents have an expiration date, then any renewal or new documents issued would have to refer to their names as specified on their birth certificates.

www.paclii.org/cgi-bin/sinodisp/fj/cases/FJILSC/2013/3.html?stem=&synonyms=&query=nawaikula

PS: It shoud read 21 July 2021