Rejected petition Stop peadophiles and sex abusers from legally changing their names

Its quite disturbing that no checks are carried out on people who wish to change their name. These checks need to be carried out to check that the person who wishes to change their name aint been involved in child or adult sex abuse

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There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/276542

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Date submitted 8 October 2019
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