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Primary Authority Overview

Background information on the scheme.

Updates to this page

From:
Office for Product Safety and Standards
Published:
4 December 2017
Last updated:
29 October 2019
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  1. Revised Primary Authority Overview booklet

  2. Booklet revised to include brief details on the measures to extend and simplify the scheme being introduced on 1 October 2017 under the Enterprise Act 2016.

  3. First published.

Documents

Primary Authority Overview

PDF, 2.01 MB, 8 pages

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Primary Authority is a means for businesses to receive assured and tailored advice on meeting regulations such as environmental health, trading standards or fire safety through a single point of contact. This ensures start-ups get it right at the outset and enables all businesses to invest with confidence in products, practices and procedures, knowing that the resources they devote to compliance are well spent.

This booklet summarises the main features of Primary Authority.

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