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Law of the person name (the name law). |
| Date | LAW-2002-06--07-19 |
| Ministry of | The Justis and the Department of Emergency |
| Last modified | LAW-2016-06-17-46 from 01.07.2016 |
| Published | In 2002 booklet 5 |
| Istrontrecation | 01.01.2003 |
| Changing | LO-1964--05-29-1 |
| Announcement | |
| Card title | Navallaw |
Jf. time care laws 9 Feb 1923 # 2 (Additional slav 28 July 1949 # 7), 29 May 1964 # 1.
Everyone should have a first name and a single or double last name and can in addition have a middle name. Any one has the duty to use its first name and last name as a person's name. No one can take, change or loop name differently than by the law here.
Part Article SECTION 2. Pliked to select names for childrenThe rest when the child turns six months, it should or those who have parental responsibility for the child, sending message of what name the child is supposed to have.
Has the child filled six months without message being sent or without the message being accepted, the child's mother's last name is given. This does not apply to last name as mentioned in Section 4 first clause 2. And has the mother no other last name, gets the baby instead of her mother's first name with ending that shows the lineage.
Names like more than 200 people here in the realm have as a surname can be taken as the surname of others without the consent of those who already have it.
Names like 200 or fewer people here in the realm have as a surname can only be taken as last names if anyone who already has it as a last name, consent. For children under the age of 18, the consent of it or those who have parenthood is given the responsibility.
Names that are not registered in the Central People's Registry as a name that is in use as a surname here in the realm can be taken as the surname. This still does not apply to names like :
| 1. | is so similar to a protected surname that the names can easily be mixed together. The name can still be taken if all of which have the protected name as the surname, consent. Other clause other period applies to the equivalent. |
| 2. | are identical or have equality as mentioned in number 1 with an ordinary known enterprise name, trademark, or other characteristic of the realm here in the realm, with an ordinary known name of a foundation, association, institution or similar or with an ordinary known artist name, and it must be assumed that The entitlement interests will suffer damage if the person gets the name. |
| 3. | has been registered in the central folk registry as a name that is or has been in use as a first name. The name can still be taken as the surname if it has ancesti or tradition as a surname in Norway or abroad or has tradition in a culture that does not distinguish between first name and last name. |
| 0 | Modified by law 5 sep 2003 # 91 (ikr. 1 March 2004 ifg. res. 5 sep 2003 # 1118). |
Regardless of the limitations in Section 3, the following names can be taken as the surname :
| 1. | names that are or have been one of the great-grandmother's, great-grandparents, grandparent or parents ' surname or middle name. This does not apply to previous names that are acquired by marriage or samboerhood. |
| 2. | one of her parents ' first name with ending showing the lineage, or when the name has a tradition in a culture that allows it, one of the grandparent's first name with ending that shows kinship. |
| 3. | names that are or have been one of their parents ' or grandparent's first name, when the name has a tradition in a culture that does not distinguish between first name and last name. |
| 4. | names that are or have been the spouse's last name or middle name, and that are not acquired by a previous marriage or samboerhood. |
| 5. | The spouse's first name when the name has a tradition in a culture that does not distinguish between first name and last name. |
| 6. | names that are one of the stepparents or foster parents ' surname or middle name, and they consent. |
| 7. | Last name or middle name that the person has had previously, and has not been acquired by marriage or samboerhood, or a middle name as the person has. |
| 8. | names of a farm use as the person or one of dennes's parents own and have owned for at least 10 years or as the person or one of the parents use and has spent at least 10 years and has an use entitled for one of the his parents or their lifetime. This does not apply if the name of the farmland has been selected after 1. January 1947 and violates law 18. May 1990 # 11 about stannamn Section 3 letter a. |
| 9. | last name or middle name as the person for the other has a very special association. |
Samemen who have lived together for at least two years or who have joint children can choose their names after first clause 4 and 5 in the same way as spouses if the sambo consent.
Besides the adopted family, the person who is adopted can be named after her biological lineage after first clause 1, 2 and 3.
| 0 | Modified by law 10 June 2005 # 53 (ikr. 1 aug 2006 ifg. res. 10 June 2005 # 533). |
Does anyone who are under 18 years adopted are given the adoption of the adoption of the adoption with less otherwise determined in connection with the adoption. This does not apply to where the one spouse adopts the other's children.
When spouses together adopt someone who is under the age of 18, the adopted child adopted her mother's last name unless otherwise is set in connection with the adoption. Section 2 other clause other period applies to the equivalent.
A change of the spelling of a surname that brings the spelling closer to the common speech of the name or closer to the written language of the matter is not considered to take a different name. The same applies to a change of the spelling of letters that are commonly known abroad.
A change of an aftername's gender-specific ending is not considered to take a different name.
Part Article SECTION 7. Dual last nameTwo names that can be taken as surnames can be taken as a double last name where the two names are put together with a hyphen. In relation to Section 3 and 4, a double surname as two separate last names.
Part Article SECTION 8. FirstAs a first name, it cannot be selected a name registered in the central folk registry as a name that is or has been in use as a surname or a middle name. The name can still be taken as a first name if it has ancestor or tradition as a first name in Norway or abroad or has tradition in a culture that does not distinguish between first name and last name.
Names that can be taken as a surname can be taken as a middle name.
Although the rest conditions are met, a message to take, change or loop name is not accepted if their person's name otherwise may become significantly disadvantage for the person or other strong reasons dictates it.
People over 16 years cannot take, change or loop first name or last name more than once every 10 years. The person can still within ten years :
| 1. | take as the surname last name of a spouse or a roommate who has been living with for at least two years or have children with, or for names that have a tradition in a culture that does not distinguish between first name and last name, spouse or the roommate's first name, |
| 2. | take as last name a surname that the person previously has had, |
| 3. | take as surname stepparents, foster parents or adopted parents ' last name, and |
| 4. | change the first name back to the first name that they had before the change, |
| 5. | take, change or loop first name or last name if there are very special reasons. |
| 0 | Modified by law 17 June 2016 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2016 ifg. res. 17 June 2016 # 702). |
The one that will take, change or loop name, must give message about it to the tax office, which determines whether the message should be accepted. For some navnaker, the ministry can decide that messages should be given to and processed by a different management organ. Attaches whether to accept or refuse to accept a message can be scratched to the county of the county.
The Ministry of Justice can provide further regulations on the use of message form and message content and about the case processing for the otherwise.
| 0 | Modified by law 29 June 2007 # 63 (ikr. 1 jan 2008 ifg res. 7 des 2007 # 1370). |
Message to take, change or loop name for someone who has not filled 16 years, shall be conveyed by it or those who have parental responsibility, or these must have consented to the message. If the message is a child over 12 years, the child must also have consented. Even if it has not been consent after the first or second period, the message can be accepted if it has been particularly shallow.
Regarding the message a person who has changed legal gender after law on change of legal gender Section 4 others clause second period, it is sufficient with consent from one of those who have parental responsibility.
| 0 | Modified by law 17 June 2016 # 46 (ikr. 1 July 2016 ifg. res. 17 June 2016 # 702.) |
Is someone's rights violated by an ordinance that accepts a message to take, change or loop name, the person can make his right current at lawsuits within two years after the person got or should obtained knowledge of the ordinance. The search target must be erected within 10 years after the ordinance was hit.
The law applies to anyone who in the Central People's Registry is registered as settled here in the realm of the realm and intends to remain living here lasting.
The subject of the first clause and is a foreign national, can here in the realm incomes message to take, change or loop names in accordance with the decision struck by the state-run government, unless otherwise follows by regulation after third clause.
The king can at regulation give rules on what naming rules should apply to foreign nationals living here in the realm, and for Norwegian nationals living abroad, and about protection here in the realm of the realm of surnames that are in use abroad.
The law applies from the time the King 1 determines. From the same time, law ceases 29. May 1964 # 1 about personnamn to apply.
| 1 | Ifg. res. 7 June 2002 # The 527 Justice Department, as of the research of the Research 14 oct 2002 # 1126 decided that the law went on ikr. 1 jan 2003. |
The one that at the law of the law has last name consisting of two names separated by spaces, can even retain the name in this form.
Last name, which by the law of law, consists of two names associated with a hyphen, is considered a double last name consisting of two last names.
Part Article SECTION 17. Changes in other lawsFrom the time the law here takes effect, the following changes are made in other laws :---
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