All templatesREPUBLIC OF KENYA
THE REGISTRATION OF DOCUMENTS ACT (CAP. 285)
DEED POLL ON CHANGE OF NAME
THIS CHANGE OF NAME DEED is made this .......... day of .................... 20.... by me MARY WANJIRU KAMAU-OTIENO of P.O. Box 7720-00100, Nairobi, holder of National Identity Card/Passport No. 27781143, a resident of Kenya now or until recently called WANJIRU MARY KAMAU WITNESSES AND IT IS HEREBY DECLARED as follows:
1. I absolutely renounce and abandon the use of my said former name of Wanjiru Mary Kamau and I assume and determine to take and use from the date hereof the new name of Mary Wanjiru Kamau-Otieno in substitution for my former name of Wanjiru Mary Kamau.
2. I shall at all times hereafter in all records documents and other writings and in all actions and dealings and on all occasions whatsoever use the new name of Mary Wanjiru Kamau-Otieno in substitution for my former name of Wanjiru Mary Kamau so relinquished as aforesaid to the intent that I
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Change of name (deed poll) template (Kenya)
Also called: Deed Poll (Change of Name)
What it is for
Officially changing your name.
The Kenyan law it follows
- Registration of Documents Act Cap 285
- Registration of Documents (Change of Name) Regulations — r.3 (Form 1; signed in both names before one witness; a minor's deed signed by the parent or guardian, with the consent of a minor over sixteen), r.4 (birth certificate and, for a married woman, the marriage certificate and her husband's consent or an advocate's certificate), r.5 (statutory declaration in Form 6)
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