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What packaged goods are, how they are labelled, units of measurements used and compliance with weights and measures regulation.
Weights and measures - find out the law on trading standards for packaging and selling products
You must use metric measurements (grams, kilograms, millilitres or litres)…
Some goods must be sold in fixed sizes known as ‘specified quantities’.…
Packaged goods are products that are all of these: sold sealed between 5g…
Equipment for packaged goods The equipment you use to weigh or measure…
You must put the weight or volume of your packaged goods on the label. The…
How product specific rules are used to identify the country of origin when importing or exporting between the UK and EU.
Use this pro-forma to show assent to a private limited company being re-registered as an unlimited company.
The penalties if you are caught taking or dealing drugs - drug classification, fines and prison sentences
Guidance on the different types of compensation within the justice system.
Use the case studies to help you decide when your goods may (or may not) go beyond insufficient production.
Find out how to account for VAT schemes on business gifts, samples and promotional schemes.
Use this form to give notice of an allotment of a new share class by an unlimited company.
Explains planning controls relating to the storage of hazardous substances in England and how to handle development proposals around hazardous establishments.
Use this form to apply to re-register your private limited company as an unlimited company.
Responding to suspected breaches of planning control.
Find out the rules to establish the country of origin of imported and exported goods and to help identify goods which qualify for lower or no Customs Duty.
This note is part of the statutory guidance under s215 of the HRA 2008 (from 1 April 2024)
Use this form as an application by a public company for re-registration as a private unlimited company.
Incorporate a private limited company - register it with Companies House and rules on directors, shares, articles of association and telling HMRC about the company
Bringing in goods for personal use when you travel to the UK from abroad - types of tax and duty, duty free, EU and non-EU arrivals, banned and restricted goods.
Use this form to apply to re-register from an unlimited company to a private limited company.
Information on depleted uranium (DU) including what it is, its uses, health effects and protection from exposure.
How to export certain types of regulated wood, wood products and bark from Great Britain to the world.
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