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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.
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.
Sample letters to get a copy of restraining order or protective injunction against an abusive partner, if you're applying for legal aid.
Sample letters to get evidence of a restraining order or injunction against an abusive partner, if you're applying for legal aid.
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
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.
Know how to stun or kill poultry, rabbits and hares on small-scale farms.
Use this form to apply to vary or revoke a behaviour order.
Detention services order 07/2016 about the Home Office’s responsibility to complete a risk assessment before restraining a detainee under escort.
A table of rehabilitation periods for the most common sentences and disposals, and example scenarios.
Last updated 30 January 2017.
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