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If you abstract water or plan to, you may need to apply for an abstraction licence.

Register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) if you run an adult placement service in England

Adventure activities licence, when you need it, what outdoor activities you need it for, caving, climbing, trekking, watersports, penalties for not having a licence

Agricultural analysts are responsible for performing analyses on feed to ensure businesses are complying with feed safety law.

Get a BCAR Section L licence for working on UK registered non-Part 21 aircraft.

Get a UK Part 66 aircraft maintenance engineer licence for working on Part 21 aircraft.

Register a milk production facility in England and Wales with the Food Standards Authority (FSA).

You need a licence if you're a gas supplier, transporter, shipper or interconnector in England, Scotland and Wales

Get a licence to build, change or retain a structure on or in the River Thames.

To undertake regulated financial activities, you must be authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

How to get a licence (grant of approval) to hold a civil marriage or civil partnership in your venue, and what requirements or conditions to follow

You must become an approved driving instructor (ADI) if you want to charge people for car driving lessons.

You need to register with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) to practise as an art therapist in the UK

To sell goods by auction in a stall or other premises you might need to register with your local council

You need authorisation from the Financial Conducty Authority (FCA) to advise on, arrange or sell general insurance products

Registered auditor, statutory auditor, how to register, which professional body to register with, requirements, fees and penalties

Apply for a boatmasters’ licence, once you have completed the necessary training, to operate on certain vessels on inland waters or “limited” coastal operations.

You may need a busking licence or permit from the council before busking in that area. Find out the council's rules on busking and apply online.

You need an operating licence from the Civil Aviation Authority to carry passengers, mail or cargo by air for commercial purposes

You must receive a route licence from the Civil Aviation Authority to operate UK-registered aircraft on commercial passenger or cargo flights outside the European Economic Area (EEA)

What is a campsite licence and applying to get one

You usually need a licence from your local council to have a caravan site on your land

You must become a certified motorcycle instructor or DVSA assessed CBT motorcycle instructor if you want to provide the CBT course for learner riders.

To employ a child in the UK, you may need to get a work permit from your local authority

You must register with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) to practise as a chiropodist or podiatrist in the UK

You must register with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) to practise as a clinical scientist in the UK

Apply for a club premises certificate through your council if you're a social, sporting or political members club and you want to do activities that need one

You need a licence to reproduce the words of hymns or worship songs for collective worship at schools

You need a licence to photocopy hymns or worship songs for collective worship at your school

You need a licence to net for salmon and sea trout or fish for eels using nets, trawls or traps

To act as a conveyancer in England and Wales, you can register with the Council of Licensed Conveyancers (CLC)

Cooling tower notification for commercial site owners

Apply for a licence to produce copies of copyright protected material

You must register with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) to practise as a dietitian in the UK

You may need an environmental permit to discharge liquid effluent or waste water to surface water or the ground.

You need a licence to use television or radio broadcast material for non-commercial educational purposes

You need a licence to manufacture or store explosives

If you work in farriery (shoeing horses or other equine animals) in England, Scotland or Wales, you need to be registered with the Farriers Registration Council (FRC)

You need specific licences to manufacture fireworks, store fireworks, and sell fireworks all year round (except when selling at specific times set out below).

You may need an environmental permit to do work in or by a main river, flood defence structure or sea defence, or in a flood plain.

Food analysts are responsible for performing chemical analyses on food to ensure businesses are complying with food safety law.

Food examiners are responsible for performing microbiological analyses on food and feed to ensure businesses are complying with food safety law.

You need permission from the crown estate to carry out gold or silver exploration for commercial gain.

You need a goods vehicle operator’s licence if your business uses a goods vehicle with either a gross plated weight (the maximum weight that the vehicle can have at any one time) of over 3,500 kilograms (kg) or an unladen we…

You need a licence to drive a hackney carriage - taxicabs, England, excluding London, Scotland and Wales

You may have to register with your local council in England if you run a hairdressing or barbers business, so that they can check you're following health and safety rules

You'll need a hackney vehicle licence if you want to use a horse and carriage for paying customers

Get a licence to rent out your property as a house in multiple occupation (HMO) in England or Wales - local authority, private renting, landlords, houseshare

Apply for a licence for house-to-house collections of money or goods for charity in England or Wales

You need a licence to undertake the procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of gametes, embryos and/or provide in-vitro fertilisation, or artificial insemination treatments