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Defra’s Secretary of State has permitted the use of this bluetongue serotype 3 (BTV-3) vaccine within the United Kingdom, subject to licence.
First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government
Find out when HMRC may consider a scheme administrator to be a fit and proper person.
Explains schools’ legal duties on political impartiality to help school leaders, teachers and other staff consider these in teaching and extra-curricular activities.
This guide to police powers and procedures statistics is designed to be a useful reference guide with explanatory notes on the statistics.
Police and crime panels provide support and scrutiny to locally elected police and crime commissioners, ensuring this information is available to the public.
Find out about the many benefits that trees can bring to your land and the financial and expert support you can get from the Forestry Commission.
These drawings provide details of the proposed works to support the High Speed Rail (West Midlands to Crewe) Bill.
Planning Obligations: good practice advice from the Planning Inspectorate
MGN provides guidance on use of Electronic Record Books for the purpose of recording Navigational Activities as stipulated within SOLAS Chapter V/Reg 28 and IMO Resolution A.916(22).
Guidance to mariners on the use of mobile phones or other personal electronic devices and the dangers of not using them appropriately when working.
This MGN annexes a revision of the Code of Practice ‘Roll-on/Roll-off Ships – Stowage and Securing of Vehicles’
Crew accommodation standards as a substantial equivalence to MLC standard A3.1 for new UK vessels under 200GT, ordinarily engaged in commercial activities.
Provides guidance to help fishermen make decisions regarding the operation of their vessel using the Wolfson Stability Guidance Method.
Shipowners requirements to provide seafarers with medical care on board ship.
This notice lists merchant shipping notices and marine guidance notes which provide standards or guidance for implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006.
Maritime Safety Information (MSI) is defined in the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention, Chapter IV as “navigational and meteorological warnings, meteorological forecasts and other urgent safety related messages broadca…
Provision of facilities for emergency helicopter operations on sea-going ships which do not have a helideck & emergency contingency plans.
Reminder to all UK ships and other ships operating in UK territorial waters, of the legal requirements for keeping a proper look-out during the hours of darkness.
Guidance following recommendations from the Commission on Human Medicines.
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