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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Apply for a licence to move and keep certain non-native (alien) species for animal welfare purposes.
How to legally kill your own poultry, cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, rabbits and hares to eat at home.
What you need to do if you find, own or look after a listed invasive non-native (alien) animal in England and Wales.
ASC is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Home Office .
Bringing pets into Great Britain: pet passports, Great Britain pet health certificates, microchipping, rabies vaccinations, travelling with assistance dogs.
Apply for a licence to import live animals (not pet dogs, cats and ferrets).
How to get a handling or storage site approved, how to store animal by-products (ABPs) and derived products, and how to build the site.
Find out what you must do before you get a pet pig, how to register as a keeper and get a pig walking licence and what you can feed pet pigs.
How to minimise the risk of disease from animal wool and hair, register your site, and dispose of materials you don't want.
A collection of guides for anyone working with animal by-products (ABPs), including how to process, transport, store and dispose of them.
Rules to follow if you’re moving animals or animal products from one country to another and transiting through Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), known as ‘landbridge’ movements.
Find out what milk you can use in farm animal feed, and how to process it for general sale or register to supply it to farms unprocessed.
Advice given to government by the Farm Animal Welfare Committee (and its predecessor Council).
User guide to Home Office statistics of scientific procedures on living animals.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export live caprine and ovine to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.
You must fill in this form to confirm that you won't sell or transfer the pet dog, cat, ferret or assistance dog to a new owner in the UK.
A to Z list of countries and their category of risk for rabies.
How to spot BSE, what to do if you suspect it, measures you must take to prevent it and when you must have cattle tested.
Information for farmers about inspections carried out when there have been complaints about the welfare of livestock on farms.
Food grown, sold and consumed; farm productivity, management and commodity prices; health and welfare of farm animals; control of animal and plant diseases.
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