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Intellectual property can be bought, sold or licensed.
HMRC can tax loans paid to contractors or freelance workers through trusts or umbrella companies, just like normal income.
What to do before you apply, and how to apply for a licence yourself or through your employer.
Guidance for employers on employing someone outside the UK.
Find out about current competent person schemes to self-certify certain types of building work if you work in building as an installer.
These are the Marine licence requirements for construction activities taking place within the Marine Management Organisation's jurisdiction.
When you need building regs approval, how to apply, using a competent person scheme, and determinations and appeals
Find out how SIA licensing applies to event staff.
This guidance is for UK Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs) who are intending to subcontract tasks such as testing, certification or inspection.
The different types of SIA licence, and which job activities need a licence.
Employment status (worker, employee, self-employed, director or contractor) affects employment rights and employer responsibilities in the workplace
What an SIA approved contractor must do to remain approved.
The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.
SIA regulation: how the SIA enforces the law and what the penalties are for breaking it.
Where you may find asbestos, how to reduce the risk of exposing it, when you need a licensed contractor and how to deal with asbestos waste.
What you must do if you wish to use our Licence Management service.
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