Guidance and regulation

How to use the General Register Office to find marriage certificates when researching your family tree and family history.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 16 February 2019

Guidance to help public authorities comply with the Public Sector Equality Duty in their policies, programmes and services.

• From: Equality Hub and 1 others
• Updated: 18 December 2023

Information and guidance for transgender and transsexual customers.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 15 August 2013

Places of worship, including those registered for marriages under the Marriage Act, both for the marriage of opposite sex and same sex couples.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 9 February 2024

Tells HM Passport Office staff how to deal with applications to replace passports that have been reported lost or stolen.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 17 November 2022

Outlines the evidence you need to give if you're applying for a British passport outside the UK and have links with the Philippines.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 30 November 2022

Tells HM Passport Office staff about replacing documents that have been lost or damaged.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 7 February 2024

Guidance on how to sign your new passport.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 12 March 2020

How to take part in a planning or listed building consent appeal proceeding by written representations.

• From: Planning Inspectorate
• Updated: 11 January 2024

Tells HM Passport Office staff how to check a damaged British passport received as a supporting document, and how to replace a damaged British passport.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 26 October 2022

An example of a supporting letter to include with your collective passport application.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 1 April 2013

Acceptable UK passport photograph standards.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 9 February 2011

A listing of where you can view the General Register Office indexes online and in person.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 22 April 2015

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) guidance on preventing and responding to sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment in the international aid sector.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and 1 others
• Updated: 1 February 2024

Tells HM Passport Office staff about fees for passport service types, information on fee increases and the circumstances in which a refund may be granted.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 11 April 2024

People who lack mental capacity can be helped to express their views by an independent mental capacity advocate service.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care and 1 others
• Updated: 27 November 2007

This guidance from the Registrar General explains the process for approving premises as venues for civil marriages and partnerships.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 29 April 2022

This template can be used for checking photographs for all passport applicants aged 6 and over.

• From: HM Passport Office
• Updated: 9 February 2011

Find out what areas the Scottish administration legislates on and how it is structured.

• From: Cabinet Office and 1 others
• Updated: 11 September 2019

This guidance explains the safeguarding standards FCDO expects and how we assess partners’ ability to protect others from SEAH including their own staff and volunteers.

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Updated: 7 November 2022