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Change your name by deed poll: Forms LOC020, LOC021 and LOC025

If you're 18 or over, use these forms to put your new name on public record by ‘enrolling’ your deed poll at the Royal Courts of Justice. Includes guidance.

From:
HM Courts & Tribunals Service
Published
1 June 2015
Last updated
23 February 2024 — See all updates

Documents

How to change your name by deed poll

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Change of name deed: Form LOC020

PDF, 954 KB, 3 pages

Deed poll statutory declaration: Form LOC021

PDF, 85.1 KB, 2 pages

Notice for the London Gazette: Form LOC025

PDF, 1.1 MB, 1 page

Notice for the London Gazette: Form LOC025 (large print)

PDF, 331 KB, 4 pages

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Find out more about changing your name by deed poll.

If you want to enroll a deed poll for a child under 18, you must use Forms LOC022, LOC023, LOC024 and LOC026 instead.

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Published 1 June 2015
Last updated 23 February 2024 + show all updates

  1. Added Welsh version of the guidance

  2. Added information about what you must include in the exhibition sheets.

  3. Replaced the guidance notes PDF with an HTML

  4. Guidance for requesting accessible formats has been updated.

  5. Changed some references from 'Queen's Bench' to 'King's Bench' in LOC019 and updated the way we ask for names in LOC020

  6. Added Welsh language versions of the forms.

  7. LOC019 - Phone number for Queen's Bench Office amended (1 March 2021).

  8. Fee and phone number for London Gazette updated.

  9. Revised LOC019 uploaded.

  10. Added translation

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