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Dan-Q / freedeedpoll

Web application for producing UK Deed Poll documents in PDF format.
http://www.freedeedpoll.org.uk/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Should perhaps clarify whether it works in Scotland (it should, to my knowledge) #2

Open hikari-no-yume opened 10 years ago

Dan-Q commented 10 years ago

It's a little legally ambiguous. Scots Law works slightly differently: however, Scottish citizens are (of course) British citizens. Functionally-speaking, there have been many people in Scotland who've used these deeds poll and had their change of name widely accepted (DVLA, Passport Office, bank, NHS, etc.), so it can be reasonably assumed that "it'll work".

hikari-no-yume commented 10 years ago

Right, that's my understanding of it as well. It'd be nice if the site would clarify that, I suppose.

hikari-no-yume commented 10 years ago

Oh, I should point out that in Scotland, people who were born in Scotland can change their birth certificates, and they could presumably can use that as evidence of a name change, unlike in England where I don't believe birth certificates can be changed.