The Committee on Family Matters, Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism recommends that the Parliament adopt as a basis the bill on amendments to article 146 of the Family Code of Ukraine (re determining child’s name)

Information Department
18 April 2014, 13:51

The bill (Reg. No. 3881) suggests supplement a norm of the current law, according to which a child can not have more than two names, unless otherwise is stipulated by traditions of a national minority a mother and (or) a father belongs to, with a provision according to which, “a child’s name shall correspond to their sex. A child can not be given a name consisting of inanimate objects, fictional characters, geographical names, flora and fauna, titles, disease, simultaneous combination of letters, symbols and (or) numbers, abbreviations”.         

It is also suggested to establish that in case civil registration authorities refuse to assign a name to a child, which does not correspond to requirements of part 2 of this article, parents (or one of the parents) can file a complaint to a higher-level authority or a court.      

As the Committee’s Chair Artur Palatnyi claimed, the bill is very socially important and will protect the child’s right to determine their name.