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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
You may need a licence if you can’t avoid disturbing protected birds and animals to survey, film or photograph them.
Investors and businesses may be legally required to tell the government about certain sensitive acquisitions under the National Security and Investment Act.
How to operate a zoo, including understanding licences and inspections.
What best available techniques are, when you must follow them, how to propose alternatives and how to refer to them in your application.
Controls under the Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 2004, prohibited weapons, applications for removal of prohibition and making an appeal.
All patent applications filed at the IPO are checked to identify any which could be prejudicial to national security or public safety.
Change your protocol, update your authorisation, report safety issues, submit safety updates and complete your end-of-trial study report.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of industrial hydrogen production from methane or refinery fuel gas with carbon capture for storage.
The licence sets out where you can fish, what you are not allowed to fish and the limits for the stocks you are allowed to fish and land.
For each activity there is a set of rules and a risk assessment.
How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.
Apply for a licence for a bovine semen collection centre and get approval to use bovine animals and boars for artificial breeding and semen trade.
Guidance for recruiters on how to set up online pre-employment checking forms using Civil Service Jobs vX.
How to request a longer timetable for the Environment Agency to assess if your proposal can be ‘duly made’.
Apply to control wild birds, including the lesser black-backed gull and herring gull, to conserve plants and animals or protect public health and safety.
Directives, regulations, policies and guidance relating to the procurement of supplies, services and works for the public sector.
Form for cattle keepers to apply for a licence to move cattle born or reared in the UK before August 1996 to new premises.
Apply for a licence to release non-native (alien) and schedule 9 species, or release native Eurasian beavers into secure enclosures, and how to report your actions.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
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