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This Policy Framework provides the requirements and guidance for prisons and staff on searching of the person, cells, areas and vehicles.
Stop and search rates for different ethnic groups in England and Wales.
Form OS1: official search with priority by a purchaser against the whole of a registered title or pending first registration application.
The tool is a major advance in how the IPO performs patent searches.
Detention services order 09/2012 about searching detainees, staff and visitors at removal centres.
This paper studies how active labour market policies affect the exchange of information and support among jobseekers
How to make an official search and information on their purpose and effect (practice guide 12).
Find registered designs in the UK
The police can stop and question you at any time - they can search you depending on the situation.
Consultation launched to strengthen safeguards for child strip search including the requirement to notify parents and guardians when a child is strip searched.
Form OS2: official search with priority by a purchaser against part of the land in a registered title or pending first registration application.
Practical steps to manage the risk of online harms if your online platform allows people to search user generated content.
Form OS3: for official search without priority of the land in a registered title.
Guidance explaining the powers schools have to screen and search pupils, and to confiscate items they find.
The library catalogue allows you to search all the titles in a public library - many councils offer online access to their library catalogue
Look up a trade mark to see if something identical or similar to your brand is already registered.
Search the Individual Insolvency Register for details about bankruptcy orders, Debt Relief Orders, Individual Voluntary Arrangements, and restrictions orders and undertakings
Find registered patents, patent applications and pending patents
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