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How to apply for, update and cancel licences for the manufacture, import and wholesale of human and veterinary medicines.
Contact your council for a licence to deal scrap metal from regular premises in Scotland
You need an itinerant (travelling) metal dealer's licence to buy and sell scrap metal door-to-door in Scotland
Find out how to use a margin scheme to account for VAT if you buy or sell second-hand vehicles (VAT Notice 718/1).
You must register with the police if you manufacture, sell or transfer shotguns, firearms or ammunition or are involved in the repairing, testing or proving of them
Apply for an import certificate to import a medicinal product into the UK for veterinary use.
Report a manufacturer or a dealer for making or selling new vehicles, vehicle parts and vehicle accessories with safety problems.
Trade licence plates - who can use them, when they can be used and how to get a trade licence
Buy a private (personalised) number plate, assign it or transfer it to a vehicle - renew or update your entitlement certificate.
Apply to import a medicine for veterinary use into the UK.
Guidance for suppliers and dealers.
Manufacturer licences including importer licences, specials, investigational and non orthodox and wholesale distribution licences.
Use the online service to ask to be deregistered from the Registered Dealers in Controlled Oil Scheme.
Vehicle registration schemes for the motor trade - non-secure, secure and Register a Vehicle (RaV) service - how they work, who can use them and how to apply
The British Hallmarking Council's HALO award 2023 is open for submissions.
Guidance on commonly raised issues in relation to the Scrap Metal Dealers Act 2013.
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