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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
When a business changes owner, employees could be protected under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations (TUPE) - types of transfers, your rights, contracts, redundancy, where to get help
What you need to do if your member has protected their allowances and this entitles them to both a higher lump sum allowance and lump sum death benefit allowance.
How UK persons’ trading interests are protected and when authorisations must be obtained to trade with countries subject to specific extraterritorial laws.
Protection of your copyright work abroad will usually be automatic in the same way UK protection works.
Form to set up a Court Funds Office account for a protected beneficiary and to let the court know how you'd like the money to be invested.
Find out about the UK geographical indication (GI) schemes that protect the geographical names of food, drink and agricultural products, and the UK GI schemes registers.
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 assess a planning application when there are protected plants, fungi or lichens on or near a proposed development site.
Find out if you can remove or work on countryside hedgerows.
Apply for a licence to carry out work that may affect species protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, find out if you need to pay and how to report your actions.
Guidance for businesses and organisations on the relationship between trade marks and geographical indications (GIs) at the end of the transition period.
Apply for protection against infringements of intellectual property rights on imports into and exports out of the UK.
Apply to the Court of Protection for a one-off decision if you're concerned about someone's personal welfare, property or financial affairs.
How to assess a planning application when there are invertebrates on or near a proposed development site.
How you can lose your protected allowances on pension savings, how to avoid this and how to tell HMRC if you lose protection.
To protect your design outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
How the protected online filing (PROOF) scheme can help you prevent fraudulent changes to your company.
A collection of guidance documents used by UK Visas and Immigration when deciding applications for British nationality.
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