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Register to vote Register by 18 June to vote in the General Election on 4 July.
Application form to get your birth certificate information from before your adoption. Use this form if you do not live in the UK.
Find out about the information we have on our registers and how to ask us for it
Use this form to request for a search of the UK designs register.
To protect your patent outside of the UK, you usually need to apply in each country you want protection in.
Using our Find and update company information service to follow companies and search company information for free.
HM Land Registry information about searches, fees and forms.
Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the copyright owner.
Find out about the information we have on our registers and how NHS staff and local authorities in England and Wales can ask us for it
Check out how you can view proposed building plans or developments and object or comment on them through the local council
How Business e-services customers can request a search of the index map through the portal.
Find details of recent trade mark applications or amendments by searching the journal
Check what you need to do to employ teachers who are non-UK citizens.
Detention services order 09/2012 about searching detainees, staff and visitors at removal centres.
How to divorce or end a civil partnership if your partner’s gone missing, you do not know their whereabouts or they are presumed dead
This Policy Framework provides the requirements and guidance for prisons and staff on searching of the person, cells, areas and vehicles.
When applying to register a trade mark, you must use the classification system to specify the goods and/or services you'll be using it on.
How to make an official search and information on their purpose and effect (practice guide 12).
Buy or get someone's permission to use a patent, trade mark, design or work under copyright
Find out if someone's listed on the Armed Forces Memorial roll of honour - information available, print a certificate
Find out the information you must give to customers on food products and how to give it.
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