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You need a public service vehicle (PSV) operator’s licence to operate a vehicle for hire or reward (payment or payment in kind) that can carry 9 or more passengers or operate a smaller vehicle carrying passengers and chargin…

Public analysts perform chemical analyses on food to ensure businesses are complying with food safety law.

As a radiographer you need to register with the Health and Care Professions Council

You need a licence from the Office of Rail Regulation to operate a railway network

You must register with the General Chiropractic Council to practice as a chiropractor in the UK

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

You need to register with DVLA if you want to sell or make number plates

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

You must register with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) to practice as a physiotherapist or physical therapist in the UK

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

You must register with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) to practice as a speech and language therapist in the UK

Register with the Architects Registration Board before working as an architect in the UK - temporary register, fines, penalties, qualifications

You must register with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) to practice as an orthoptist in the UK

You need to be registered on the Gas Safe Register to work on gas fittings or gas storage vessels in the UK

You must register with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons to practise as a veterinarian in the UK

You need to register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to operate a domiciliary care agency in England in order to provide care in a person's home

You need to register with the Care Quality Commission or Healthcare Inspectorate to run an independent health care service (eg private hospital or clinic) in England and Wales

You need to register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to run a residential care home for adults in England

You must get a licence from the council to dig up the road, or temporarily occupy it in connection with building work - fines, penalties

Your business must be authorised by DVSA and your MOT centre approved before you can open an MOT centre.

Get a general or special safety certificate for a sports ground or football ground.

You need a licence from the local authority to put up scaffolding or hoarding on a public highway in the UK.

You need a licence to carry out work that would demolish, damage, remove, repair, alter or add to a scheduled monument, or to carry out any flooding or tipping operations on land in, on, or under a monument

You must get a scrap metal dealer licence from the council if you buy, sell or store scrap metal

You need a seabed lease from The Crown Estate to operate a marine fish farm in coastal waters

Apply for a senior marine engine operator licence to work as a chief engineer officer on vessels of less than 750 kW power, without area restrictions.

Contact your council for a sex establishment licence if you want to run a sex shop or adult cinema

You need a firearm or shotgun certificate issued by the police to possess, buy or acquire a firearm or shotgun, and buy ammunition

You or the skip hire company need a skip licence/permit if you want to put a skip on a public road. You may need safety lights, traffic cones or markings

Get a skip permit for your skip hire company - skip hire licence, local authority, highway act

You need a full or temporary Certificate of Competence to perform many of the tasks required in a slaughterhouse.

You must have a practicing certificate from the Solicitors Regulation Authority to work as a solicitor in England and Wales

Your slaughterhouse must be authorised by the Food Standards Agency to remove specific risk material (SRM)

You need a strategic export licence to export out of the UK or trade in controlled goods, software, or technology (including data, information, and technical assistance).

If you want to collect money or sell items on the street for charity, you might need a street collection licence, depending on your local council

You may need to get a licence to trade in the street in England and Wales - restrictions, fines, penalties

You need a licence to place apparatus on a street or road in England, Wales and Scotland

You need to register with the relevant local council to get a tattoo, piercing and electrolysis licence in England and Wales

You need a Temporary Event Notice if you want to carry out a 'licensable activity' on unlicensed premises in England or Wales

The Beef Carcase Classification (BCC) scheme is the compulsory classification of beef carcases to an agreed standard so that a fair meat price can be set.

The Forestry Commission controls tree felling by issuing felling licences.

You need a licence to provide commercial television services in the UK

You need a TV Licence to watch or record programmes on a TV, computer or other device as they're broadcast, and to watch on-demand BBC programmes on iPlayer

Apply to get a class 1 fishing licence to work as a chief engineer on a vessel over 750kW (approximately 1,005HP).

Apply for a class 2 fishing licence to work as a second engineer on a vessel over 750kW (approximately 1,005HP).

You usually need to register your boat to use it on inland waterways, such as rivers and canals.

You may need an environmental permit if your business uses, recycles, treats, stores or disposes of waste or mining waste.

Apply for a vessel traffic services (VTS) operator logbook, VTS endorsements and revalidations.

You need a licence to supply water to non-household premises in England and Wales

Contact your council for a certificate of competence to operate a chargeable weighbridge