consolidation, protection, implementation and
development.
Bila (2020, p. 26) formulated a constructive
definition of the legal form of public
administration as a structured manifestation of
the will of the subject (in accordance with the
established legal procedure of objectification in
administrative law), authorized to perform the
functions of public administration, which causes
the establishment of legal consequences in
material and procedural relations. Such
consequences arise in accordance with the sphere
of action, the legal force and legal content of the
dictates of power, defined by the competence of
the subject of the expression of will and the stage
of the mechanism of administrative and legal
regulation.
In the formation of the essence of forms of
administrative and legal regulation in the sphere
of ensuring information security of Ukraine,
Yakovlev (2020, p. 245) proposed the author’s
interpretation of this concept as forms of legally
significant activity of state administration actors
in the sphere of regulation of the processes of
prevention, termination and liquidation of the
consequences of encroachment on information
security of Ukraine defined by current
legislation.
Zubko (2018, p. 15) defined the forms of
administrative activity of the public
administration regarding the legal regulation of
the defense-industrial complex of Ukraine as an
external manifestation of the power-
management, organizational, scientific and
research activity of the latter within the limits of
the defined competence for the regulation of
legal relations that arise, change and are
implemented in the field of public management
of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine
with the aim of guaranteeing national security
and defense and corresponding protection of the
rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of
individuals, society and the State.
Results and Discussion
Legal form is a complex category of legal
science, the importance of which for the theory
of administrative law and the practice of public
administration lies in its ability to systematize
and generalize, to form connections between
elements of legal matter and between legal and
non-legal phenomena, to give the latter legal
meaning and ensure their protection. At the
sectoral level, the legal form acquires integrative
qualities, which is manifested in the ability to
establish stable connections between the rules
and institutions of administrative law, to express
from the outside, to formalize the activities of
public administration subjects and thanks to this,
to ensure their influence on existing social
relations in the field of public administration,
which require legal regulation, to give legal
significance to the results of the activities of
participants in administrative and legal relations.
The legal form of public administration reveals
the content of the activity of the latter, which it is
advisable to be seen not only in the
implementation of the substrate of the state will,
but also in active participation in the formation
and implementation of the norms of
administrative law of self-governing
organizations and other institutions of civil
society, establishing its connections with
external environment. The legal form of public
administration has its own structure; its purpose
is to organize, regulate the content of public
administration activities, ensure a hierarchy of
rules of conduct, create and guarantee the
stability of connections both between the
elements of administrative law and between the
latter and other phenomena requiring legal
regulation in public life (Bila 2020, pp. 26–27).
Thus, the forms of administrative and legal
support for the state defense order in Ukraine are
formed external manifestations of the will of the
powerful subjects of the state defense order,
which manifest their legally significant
administrative and organizational activities
regarding the regulation of defense procurement,
organizational processes and legal procedures for
the sake of high-quality, optimal and effective
functioning of the defense procurement system,
protection of the rights and interests of business
entities in the context of the State defense order,
and guaranteeing the national security and
territorial integrity of Ukraine (Sydorova 2020).
The classification of legal forms of public
administration allows not only to study and group
the empirical set of existing external
objectification of public administration
activities, but also helps to identify existing
shortcomings in their legal regulation.
On the basis of the study of the variants of the
classification of legal forms and the practice of
public administration bodies already developed
by the science of administrative law, Bila (2020,
pp. 15–16) proposed the author’s division of
legal forms of public administration into classes
and subclasses. The basic criterion for the
classification is the function in administrative