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Use this form to apply for an explanation order under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Use this form to give notice of an application for an explanation order under the Terrorism Act 2000, schedule 5, paragraph 13.…
Codes that DVLA places on your driving licence, and their explanations
Use form SAP1 if you're an employer and need to tell an employee why they aren't entitled to receive Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP).
Summary and explanation of the Chancellor’s tax affairs.…
Use this form if you are making a claim for expenses when coming to a hearing at a Special Educational Needs and Disability tribunal, and you cannot provide tickets or receipts as proof of travel.
Summary and explanation of the tax affairs of current and past Prime Ministers
Use form SPP1 if you're an employer and need to tell an employee why they aren't entitled to receive Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP).
Explanations of the different terms you might see on your driving licence
An explanation of how benefit sanction rates were calculated for the press release 'Benefit sanctions down as more people helped into work'.
This guidance provides leaseholders with a plain English explanation of the implications of the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022.…
An explanation of the education staff wellbeing charter and the benefits of using it.…
This is an explanation of how we process personal data.
An explanation of the NATO Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and identification of status.…
An explanation of how the number of ROCs issues to generators is determined.
This document explains the methodology for the benefit sanction duration statistics and sanction rate.
Explanation of legal phrases used in the Family Procedure Rules.
Explanation of legal phrases used in the Civil Procedure Rules.
Explanation of the collecting, reporting and identification of mosquitoes in the UK.
Explanation of a new EU regulation on cyber security which became law in the UK in June 2019.…
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