8788 8907 8918 Cherry pick of high priority bugfixes

[severinbeauvais]

Issue #: /bcgov/entity#8788 /bcgov/entity#8907 /bcgov/entity#8918

Description of changes:

The following PRs were cherry-picked into the 2.3.17 branch:

• https://github.com/bcgov/namerequest/pull/449
• https://github.com/bcgov/namerequest/pull/450
• https://github.com/bcgov/namerequest/pull/451

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