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If someone owes you money, you can use this form (a ‘statutory demand’) to demand payment within 21 days.

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

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If a limited company owes you money, you can use Form SD1 (a ‘statutory demand’) to demand payment within 21 days.

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

• Updated: 26 September 2024

Government funding for innovation in smart energy systems and technologies

• Updated: 7 May 2021

• Updated: 3 August 2017

Guidance about compensation to owners and occupiers of business premises once a compulsory purchase order comes into force.

• Updated: 17 December 2021

Form SD4: Statutory demand under section 268(1)(a) of the Insolvency Act 1986. Debt for liquidated sum payable immediately following a judgment or order of the court.

Guidance on the different types of compensation within the justice system.

• Updated: 22 December 2022

• Updated: 1 January 2004