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This guidance, also known as Good Practice Guide (GPG) 45, helps you decide how to check, or ask others to check, the identity of those you interact with.
Information on the handling process for DBS certificates.
Information on how the equity loan works. The scheme is closed to new applications.
This document is no longer current. It provides a description of the organisational structure of Defence and how its organisations worked together before the departmental reforms that came into effect on 31 March 2025.
How to set up and register flat management companies, right to manage (RTM) companies and commonhold associations.
Firing times information for Kingsbury, Whittington and Leek.
Updated technical guidance for risk management authorities (RMAs) and project teams on how to appraise your FCERM project.
Supporting information for local areas on embedding working together to safeguard children and the children’s social care national framework in practice.
How healthcare professions should manage patients with invasive listeriosis
How to create a CQA plan, the CQA qualification requirements you need to meet and how to create a validation report.
Find out if a claim of ownership by adverse possession can be made on common land and town or village greens, what effect it will have on the land and whether a claim can be opposed.
How Business e-services customers can apply for a full land charges search through the portal.
What you need to know about capital gains tax, insurance and mortgages, or if you are a leaseholder.
Information to assist with differentiating Lyme disease from other causes of rash, neurological or non-specific symptoms.
Find out about claiming government bonuses and making withdrawals if you're a Lifetime ISA manager and an investor dies or is terminally ill.
How ship security is managed in the UK, and how to comply with UK regulations on ship security.
Regulations and guidance on fees and charging for environmental and other regulatory functions for offshore oil and gas exploration and production, offshore gas unloading and storage and offshore carbon dioxide storage activ…
Waste codes for common packaging and domestic recyclable wastes.
You can claim relief on Customs Duty and VAT if you're importing scientific materials and apparatus for education or research to the UK.
How to report and pay VAT due on the distance sales of goods from Northern Ireland to consumers in the EU using the One Stop Shop (OSS) Union scheme.
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