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Consumers and antique industry advised to check latest CITES guidance ahead of 1 January 2021
From 22 September, owners of certain firearms previously regarded as antique will require a licence.
Employment Tribunal decision.
A temporary export bar has been placed on a French Gothic ivory casket
The new measures target antique firearms used in violent crime and mean that up to 26,000 guns will now require firearms licences.
Culture Minister Caroline Dinenage has stopped the export of two Roman figures of Celtic Hounds .
Circular providing advice on changes to regulations affecting some antique firearms. The changes come into effect on 28 December 2021.
A temporary export bar has been placed on a 500 year old late Gothic statuette of St Christopher worth £10 million
A temporary export bar has been placed on Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies, English School worth £272,800
UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation and the BBC to create Antiques Roadshow exploring artefacts from the Holocaust.
Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on an Anglo-Saxon brooch from the late 8th – early 9th century.
The export of a figure of Apollo by François Girardon has been temporarily stopped
£5 million 'Bust of Peace' sculpture given export bar by Arts Minister
Public invited to give their views as new figures show the number of antique weapons recovered in criminal circumstances doubled between 2012 and 2016.
Arts Minister Michael Ellis has placed a temporary export bar on a 17th century baroque cabinet by Roman maker Giacomo Herman.
A mysterious and uniquely designed tray from the historic city of Bidar in South India is at risk of being exported from the UK unless a buyer can be found.
Upper Tribunal Tax and Chancery decision of Mr Justice Newey and Judge Clark on 7 October 2016.
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