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Building relationships and improving compliance with environmental health, trading standards and fire safety legislation through Primary Authority.
Businesses can form a partnership with a local authority to provide advice other local regulators must respect.
Find out how to give or view an authority to use deferment, guarantee or cash account to import goods.
Businesses can partner with a local authority for advice on how to comply with trading standards, environmental health and fire safety legislation.
Decide which activities are business or non-business for VAT purposes if you're a local authority or other public body.
Details of support granted to local authorities that have requested Exceptional Financial Support.
An overview of Primary Authority for national regulators including the role of supporting regulators.
This transparency code sets out what information smaller authorities should be publishing.
Guidance for trading standards, environmental health and fire safety officers regulating businesses which have a Primary Authority partnership or are members of a regulated group.
How can communications network providers work constructively with local authorities?
Information on the different types of council and their electoral arrangements.
Lessons about local authority culture and governance that can be learned from recent statutory and non-statutory interventions.
Guidance for local authorities in England who are considering adopting a 4-day working week.
Assisting local authorities to access information and services from the Valuation Office Agency (VOA).
Templates supporting good practice for local authorities providing Primary Authority Advice.
Fishing vessel certifying authorities authorised to conduct new build surveys of fishing vessels in accordance with MSN1871 The Code of Practice for the Safety of Small Fishing Vessels of less than 15m Length Overall; and registration surveys of fishing vessels....
How to maintain the registers, deal with applications, add records and correct mistakes, and apply to add records and correct mistakes.
A guide to the use of the intervention and inspection powers in the Local Government Act 1999.
This collection brings together documents, information and updates about Universal Credit for local authority staff.
Correct mistakes in commons registers, including adding or removing buildings or land, and registering greens wrongly recorded as commons.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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