Exceptions:

  • Risk of harm
    • The Attorney General can make exceptions if publishing a name change could cause significant harm to the individual. To ask about this, email: MAG.Change.of.Name@ontario.ca
  • The person whose name is being changed is a transgender, First Nation, Inuit or Métis individual and at the time of the application, they request that their name change not to be published.

Note: The Ontario Gazette is now only published online.