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A statutory demand is a formal written demand for payment of a debt within 21 days.

• Updated: 26 September 2024

Statutory demands are a formal way of asking for a debt to be paid - get the forms to send, cancel or set aside a statutory demand.

• When you can make a statutory demand

  You can make a statutory demand to ask for payment of a debt from an…

• Statutory demand forms

  Choose the form you need, fill it in and deliver (‘serve’) it to the…

• How to serve a statutory demand

  You must deliver (‘serve’) the statutory demand form by: giving it to the…

• Challenge a statutory demand

  If you do not agree with a statutory demand you’ve been given, you can…

• Contact the Insolvency Service

  Contact the Insolvency Enquiry Line for information about delivering and…

Find out what unacceptable or unreasonable actions are and how we approach them.

• Updated: 8 December 2020

This paper draws together findings from research conducted in Mozambique, Nigeria, and Pakistan

• Updated: 27 October 2021

This paper explores the electricity supply crisis from 2007 to 2015, and the ensuing contention that shaped public discourse and political events

• Updated: 27 October 2021

This study focuses on the period between 2007 and 2017 to investigate the dynamics of fuel protest in Nigeria

• Updated: 27 October 2021

Examines data on the universe of project applications and funding under Tanzania’s Social Action Fund

• Updated: 1 January 2011

• Updated: 3 May 2024

We deal with complaints about cases where a company name is registered for the primary purpose of preventing someone else with legitimate interest from registering it, or demanding payment from them to release it. Company Names Tribunal works with the...

• Updated: 15 April 2021

Information about how we manage unacceptable customer behaviour consistently and fairly.

• Updated: 24 February 2025