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The Data Protection Act (DPA) controls how personal information can be used and your rights to ask for information about yourself
The Data Protection Act 2018 controls how your personal information is…
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How you can lose your protected allowances on pension savings, how to avoid this and how to tell HMRC if you lose protection.
Find protected areas, check if your business or home is near one and what environmental restrictions apply.
Home Responsibilities Protection ran between 1978 and 2010 to help protect your State Pension - National Insurance credits, what you'll get, eligibility and applying.
How to apply for and check protections from the reductions in lifetime allowance.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Scammers may use these numbers to call you claiming to be from HMCTS and demanding payment. We’ll not call you from these numbers or request payment. If you think you’ve been a victim of a scam, report it to Action...
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) pays compensation to members of eligible defined benefit pension schemes, when there is a qualifying insolvency event in relation to the employer and where there are insufficient assets in the pension scheme to cover Pension...
A form of IP that extends the protection of patented active ingredients present in pharmaceutical or plant protection products.
Tougher sentences for cowardly killers delivered a year on from Wade Review.
Apply to get a court protection order if you or someone you know is a victim or in danger of female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as 'female circumcision' or 'female genital cutting')
Court of Protection forms including the COP1 application to make decisions on someone's behalf.
Apply to the Court of Protection for a one-off decision if you're concerned about someone's personal welfare, property or financial affairs.
Apply for protection against infringements of intellectual property rights on imports into and exports out of the UK.
For company directors, LLP members or people with significant control (PSCs) who are at serious risk and want to protect their personal information from the public.
This publication offers security advice and good practice for any organisation looking to protect against the risk of a terrorist act.
How UK museums and galleries can arrange to protect exhibits on loan from abroad from court-ordered seizure.
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