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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
As a planning authority, find out how to review applications that might affect protected sites and areas.
Tenant's guide to deposit protection schemes - your deposit, information landlords must provide, disputes and advice.
How UK persons’ trading interests are protected and when authorisations must be obtained to trade with countries subject to specific extraterritorial laws.
Using deposit protection schemes - the official schemes, information you must give tenants, what happens if you do not protect a deposit, disputes and advice
Form to set up a Court Funds Office account for a protected beneficiary and to let the court know how you'd like the money to be invested.
See the list of applications to protect the geographical name of a food, drink or agricultural product in Great Britain.
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is responsible for managing fishing and marine non-licensable activities in England’s marine protected areas (MPAs). MMO also manages marine licensable activities through our marine licensing system.
You may need a licence if you can’t avoid disturbing protected birds and animals to survey, film or photograph them.
Who gets copyright, types of work it covers, permitted use of copyright material, how to license and sell copyright and help resolving disputes
Examples of unacceptable trade marks around protected emblems, internet domain names and your company name.
A form of IP that extends the protection of patented active ingredients present in pharmaceutical or plant protection products.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
Highly Protected Marine Areas protect our diverse species and habitats around the English Coast.
How to protect your company from scams and fraud and how to report it.
The Data Protection Act (DPA) controls how personal information can be used and your rights to ask for information about yourself
How the protected online filing (PROOF) scheme can help you prevent fraudulent changes to your company.
Apply for protection against infringements of intellectual property rights on imports into and exports out of the UK.
See the list of applications to protect the geographical name of wine and aromatised wine in the UK.
Find out if you can remove or work on countryside hedgerows.
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