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Change of Name Fees Regulations

made under

Section 21 of the

Change of Name Act

R.S.N.S 1989, c. 66

O.I.C. 2019-180 (effective July 9, 2019), N.S. Reg. 102/2019

Table of Contents

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Citation

Prescribed fees

Name change for person who attended residential school

Citation

1 These regulations may be cited as the Change of Name Fees Regulations .

Prescribed fees

2 Except as provided in

Section 3 for a person seeking to reclaim a name that was changed

by a residential school, the fees set out in the following table are prescribed for the

purposes of the Change of Name Act :

Description

Fee

Application for change of name

$165.70

Request for consequential change to birth, marriage or

domestic partnership record, if request is included with

application, per record to be changed

$24.95

Duplicate certificate of change of name

$18.65

Name change for person who attended residential school

(1) In this Section, “residential school” means a school for Indigenous children funded

(2) The fee payable by a person described in subsection (3) for each of the following is

prescribed as $0.00:

(

a) an application;

(

b) a request for a consequential change to a birth, marriage or domestic

partnership record, if the request is included with an application.

(3) Subsection (2) applies to any of the following persons who seek to reclaim a name

of a person who attended a residential school and whose name was changed by the

residential school:

(

a) the person whose name was changed;

(

b) a family member of the person referred to in clause (a).

(4) This

Section remains in force until and including March 31, 2024.

Legislative History

Reference Tables

Change of Name Fees Regulations

N.S. Reg.

102/2019

Change of Name Act

Note: The

information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is

compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Change of Name Fees Regulations made

under the Change of Name Act includes all of the following regulations:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

102/2019

Jul 9, 2019

date specified

Jul 19, 2019

The following regulations are not yet in force and are not included in the

current consolidation:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for

rules about in force dates of regulations.

Amendments by Provision

ad. = added

am. = amended

fc. = fee change

ra. = reassigned

rep. = repealed

rs . = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

..........................................................

Note that changes to headings are not

included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections

Note

Effective

date

Repealed and Superseded

N.S.

Regulation

Title

In force

date

Repealed

date

74/1977

Regulations respecting change of name

Aug 2, 1977

Jul 9, 2019

Note: Only

regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this

table. It may not reflect the entire

history of regulations on this subject matter.