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Tips at work do not count towards the National Minimum Wage - tips and tax, what your employer has to do, advice and help, cash in hand payments
Legal standards for labelling and composition of food products such as bottled water, milk and meat.
As a vet or pharmacist, you must follow legal requirements when working with controlled drugs in veterinary medicine.
When you do and do not have to offer a refund, repair or replacement, unconditional refunds for online purchases, and penalties for deceiving customers
Guidance and legislation covering pet welfare and animal cruelty.
Find out about Alcoholic Ingredients Relief, which is the repayment of excise duty charged on spirits, beer, wine, other fermented products and cider.
Invoicing and taking payment from customers, what invoices must include, VAT invoices, sole trader invoices, limited company invoices, payment options, charging for late payment, chargebacks
If you believe you have found a security vulnerability in an Ofqual website, please submit your report to us.
Private renting as a tenant - repairs, rent increases and arrears, settling disputes, deposits and your rights and responsibilities.
This guidance summarises the requirements, controls and sanctions that Border Force applies to firearms and offensive weapons when they are imported into the UK.
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
Rights for interns and students in the workplace; work experience; work placements; rights to the National Minimum Wage.
Find out if a potential employee's document gives them the right to work in the UK and which documents employers should check.
Wreck and salvage laws, the role of the Receiver of the Wreck, wreck owners and salvors and how to report wreck material.
A collection of guidance to help landlords, homeowners and letting agents carry out correct right to rent checks and avoid civil penalties.
Overtime law - what is overtime, overtime pay, employee rights, part-time workers and time off in lieu
FCDO travel advice for United Arab Emirates. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.
You cannot buy or use fireworks if you're under 18, and you must not set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am, except on certain occasions
Guidance for businesses trading in timber and timber-related products.
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