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The British Hallmarking Council's HALO award 2023 is open for submissions.
The Royal Mint (RM) is the world’s leading export mint, making coins and medals for an average of 60 countries every year. However, its first responsibility is to make and distribute United Kingdom coins as well as to supply blanks...
Get contact details for official receivers in England and Wales
This guidance is to help you know how to recognise a hallmark and who to contact about your consumer rights.
Form OS1: official search with priority by a purchaser against the whole of a registered title or pending first registration application.
Find out how to recognise official customs seals and how authorised traders can use their own seals in place of official customs seals.
How Business e-services customers can request official copies of a register, title plan and/or documents.
Two jewellery businesses with an emphasis on creating bespoke commissions are the joint winners of the HALO Award 2023.
How to comply with hallmarking law if your business supplies items described as precious metal (gold, silver, platinum or palladium).
Guidance on how organisations should secure their technology and services to protect UK government information classified as OFFICIAL.
Guidance for UK jewellery importers and exporters.
How to order official cattle ear tags, what to do if your animal is untagged, its tags have been damaged or it has been tagged incorrectly.
How to make an official search and information on their purpose and effect (practice guide 12).
You need a certificate to export rough diamonds.
Guidance for Trading Standards officers on how to enforce the hallmarking law.
We review new designs of coins, medals, seals and decorations and then recommend preferred designs to the government. RMAC is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by HM Treasury .
Guidance about the changes to whiplash claims from 31 May 2021.
How Business e-services customers can apply for an official search of whole with priority through the portal.
Documents, certificates, letters and notes available at British embassies in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
The National Archives is the official archive and publisher for the UK government and for England and Wales. It is the guardian of some of our most iconic national documents, dating back over 1,000 years. The National Archives is a...
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