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What happens if you're stopped by the police while driving - breath tests, motoring offences, faults with your vehicle, seizing your vehicle
The police can stop a vehicle for any reason. If they ask you to stop, you…
The police can stop you at any time and ask you to take a breath test…
The police can give you a ‘fixed penalty notice’ for less serious traffic…
If your vehicle has something wrong with it, for example a broken brake…
The police can seize a vehicle if they think it’s being used in a way that…
Guidance for creditors of a debt that has been placed in a ‘breathing space’.
Apply to continue with action against a debt owed to you as creditor in a ‘breathing space’, cancel or amend a breathing space, or have a debt owed to you removed from a breathing space.
Appeal a debt adviser’s decision to include your address in a ‘breathing space’ for a debt that you owe.
Guidance for creditors applying to take a debt recovery step, cancel or amend the ‘breathing space’, or have a debt removed.
Product Recall for 3M™ Heavy Duty Breathing Tubes presenting a health risk.
Guidance for Approved Mental Health Professionals and others about mental health crisis breathing space
Service access and guidance for creditors and money advisers about Breathing Space
Ad-hoc statistics on the number of breathing spaces obtained under the Debt Respite Scheme, broken down by location, age, and money advisor organisation. The publication covers the first year of the operation of the scheme.
Product Recall for SDIVEOXY Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA) Cylinder Set 0.5L presenting a serious risk of drowning.
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