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This guidance summarises the requirements, controls and sanctions that Border Force applies to firearms and offensive weapons when they are imported into the UK.
Get a licence to possess and transport dead specimens of certain animals for scientific or educational purposes.
If you're a laboratory or scientific institution, use this licence to hold tissue samples from wild birds and animals during investigations into offences.
The laws on selling, buying and carrying a knife or weapon depend on the type of knife or weapon, your age and your circumstances.
Information about controlled drugs licences for companies that possess, manufacture, produce or supply controlled drugs in England, Wales or Scotland.
How to assess a planning application when there are reptiles on or near a proposed development site.
Licence and registration application information for companies that deal in precursor chemicals.
How to apply for a licence to modify or remove dams, burrows and lodges at any time of year.
Guidance for those producing, processing, consuming, importing or exporting chemicals covered by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC)
Apply for a licence to kill, take, disturb or possess a protected species for survey, research or conservation work.
The legal process of repossession, including what your mortgage lender must do, repossession hearings, possession orders and help with legal costs
Get a general licence to temporarily possess and transport dead bats for testing as part of the passive surveillance for bat rabies project.
How to assess a planning application when there are otters on or near a proposed development site.
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