Skipping the first n lines when using regex with sed?

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In sed, is it possible to skip the first n lines when applying a regex? I am currently using the following:

cat test | sed '/^Name/d;/^----------/1;/^(/d;/^$/d'

on the following file:

Name
John
Albert
Mora
Name
Tommy
Tammy

In one pass, I want to use some regexes (one of which is to remove the line containing Name but I want to skip the first line in this case) to obtain the following:

Name
John
Albert
Mora
Tommy
Tammy

Because the file is huge, I don't want to make multiple passes so any one-pass approaches would be great.

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