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Use this form for a protected person to apply to vary or revoke a restraining order.
Rules on restraining methods, stunning pens, captive bolt, gas and electrical stunning equipment, bleeding animals and shackling and hoisting animals.
Use this form for a defendant to apply to vary or revoke a restraining order.
Sample letters to get a copy of restraining order or protective injunction against an abusive partner, if you're applying for legal aid.
Know which licence or certificate you must have to restrain, stun or kill animals which are not for human consumption, and how to carry out these operations.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
Sample letters to get evidence of a restraining order or injunction against an abusive partner, if you're applying for legal aid.
How to legally carry out slaughter without stunning in accordance with religious rites, including how to restrain and bleed the animal.
Understand when civil restraint orders (CROs) are issued and view the lists of people with CROs in force against them.
A table of rehabilitation periods for the most common sentences and disposals, and example scenarios.
A table of rehabilitation periods for the most common sentences and disposals applied to checks processed until 27 October 2023, and example scenarios.
Detention services order 07/2016 about the Home Office’s responsibility to complete a risk assessment before restraining a detainee under escort.
Ask the court to make an order protecting you and any relevant child from abuse or harassment by a named person, or to prevent them living in your home.
Apply for an injunction if you've been a victim of domestic abuse - non-molestation or occupation orders - who can apply, serving documents and attending a hearing.
Last updated 30 January 2017.
Make an urgent or emergency application to get permission to make decisions for someone who lacks mental capacity including interim applications for people applying to be a deputy
Powers that police, councils and other authorities can use to control or improve the behaviour of dogs.
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