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Replacement Deed Poll · £18.50
A replacement Deed Poll from us costs £18.50: a paralegal drafts a new deed in your former and current names, dated with the day you first changed your name, and it is posted the same working day. Whoever made the original, and however long ago, it is replaced the same way.
Both £18.50 · about five minutes · posted the same working day
That sounds alarming and it is not. An unenrolled Deed Poll is a document you hold, not a record on a register, so replacing it is simply a matter of drafting it again properly. You do not need to go back to whoever made the first one, and you do not need to change your name a second time.
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A replacement is a fresh Deed Poll, hand-drafted by a paralegal, that records the change of name you have already made and the date you originally made it. It is legal documentary evidence of your name change in exactly the way the lost one was.
It is not a second name change. Everything you have already updated stays as it is. Passports, licences and bank records that carry your new name are unaffected.
Replacements are the most common order we take. These are the usual reasons, and none of them is unusual.
Lost in a move, thrown out in a clear-out, or lent and never returned. It is the reason we hear most, and nothing to worry about.
Originals sent by post are not always sent back. A replacement is quicker and more certain than chasing it.
Water, creasing, a tear through the names, a signature that has faded, or lamination, which GOV.UK tells drivers not to send DVLA. Organisations are entitled to refuse a document they cannot read.
People routinely under-order certified copies. A replacement with a fresh bundle solves it in one go.
A mortgage, a pension transfer, a new employer. Old name changes resurface years later and want documenting.
Home-made or template deeds are sometimes refused. Ours is drafted in wording our paralegals know is accepted.
Everything is hand-drafted by a paralegal, checked by quality control and posted the same working day. Working to a deadline? How soon it can reach you.
For anyone aged 16 or over replacing their own Deed Poll.
£18.50per Deed Poll
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For a child under 16, applied for by a parent with parental responsibility.
£18.50per Deed Poll
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A typical order is £23.49, £18.50 plus £4.99 first class. Nothing else to pay.
Not sure which you need? Ask a paralegal or read what to do if you have lost your Deed Poll.
About five minutes. Tell us your old name, your new name and roughly when you changed it. Pay by card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay or Klarna.
Sign in front of two independent adult witnesses, who sign it too. Each over 18, not related to you, not living at your address. The guide walks you through it.
Use the cover letter we include and our checklist of who to tell. Certified copies mean several organisations can be dealt with at once.
Order today and it should reach you:Royal Mail working days, chosen at the checkout
Everything travels together in one Royal Mail envelope, posted the working day you order. We never send it as a file to print, because a deed only works once it carries handwritten signatures: yours and your witnesses’. Once it is signed, keep it safe at home and send certified copies instead.
A certified copy is one we draft and certify as a true copy of your replacement. HM Passport Office and the DVLA ask for the original itself, but many other organisations that will not accept a photocopy will accept a certified copy in place of the original, which is what makes it worth ordering a few.
A certified copy is one we draft and certify alongside your Deed Poll, so you can deal with several organisations at once instead of one after another. Tick what you have, and say how many of each: two banks needs two copies. These are the 14 that normally keep what you send. HM Passport Office and the DVLA ask for the original itself, and most other places look at it and hand it back.
UK Government
HM Passport Office
DVLA
HM Revenue & Customs
Banks & building societies
Schools & universities
HM Land Registry
Insurers & employersIf a Deed Poll we have drafted is ever refused, we refund you in full. See who you need to notify
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Very fast and cheap compared to other options. Fully accepted everywhere (I used Deed Polls Online to change the name on my license)
Needed a name change and these guys made the whole process seamless. I can definitely recommend them.
Yes. No central office keeps Deed Polls, so there is nobody to go back to, and we replace deeds from any source: ours, another Deed Poll service, a solicitor, a notary public, or one you wrote yourself.
No. It records the change you made before, with its original date, so you are not starting again and nothing you have already updated needs undoing.
Rarely with any success. Most organisations want an original or a certified copy, and HM Passport Office and the DVLA want the deed itself, so a photocopy of a lost deed seldom gets anywhere. A replacement gives you an original to send again.
If a name, the date or a signature can no longer be read, it is time for one. HM Passport Office’s caseworker guidance has its staff ask for a new deed when one is not signed in both names, witnessed and dated, and damage that hides any of those raises the same question. Lamination is a problem of its own: GOV.UK tells drivers not to send DVLA laminated certificates, and HM Passport Office turns laminated evidence down unless it is a change of name deed sent with a passport application. A replacement is £18.50 and records the same change and its original date.
No. Your name is unchanged, so the records already in it stay put. The replacement is for organisations you have not told yet, and for anyone who asks you for proof in future.
Usually not. Give the closest date you can at the checkout, and a paralegal will work through it with you, emailing before drafting if it needs narrowing down.
Yes, for the same £18.50. A parent with parental responsibility orders it, and as with the first deed, everyone who holds parental responsibility for the child must agree.
The parent, or both parents, with parental responsibility, just as for the first deed, with witnesses watching; the child does not sign it. It records that the child’s name was changed by Deed Poll on the original date and that the first deed is lost, and everyone with parental responsibility must agree to it.
Yes, as the first one did: it takes effect once you sign it with your witnesses watching, and they sign it as well. There is room for two, and we recommend both, each over 18, not a relative and not living with you. Our guide covers it in a page.
£18.50 for the replacement, drafted and posted the same working day. You choose Royal Mail delivery at the checkout from £2.99, so with first class a typical order comes to £23.49. Certified copies are optional, from £6 for two up to £25 for twenty.
Something else? Ask a paralegal and we will answer, usually the same working day.
Apply online in about five minutes. Your replacement Deed Poll is drafted, checked and posted the same working day, and guaranteed to be accepted.
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