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The Data Protection Act (DPA) controls how personal information can be used and your rights to ask for information about yourself
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Home Responsibilities Protection ran between 1978 and 2010 to help protect your State Pension - National Insurance credits, what you'll get, eligibility and applying.
Home Responsibilities Protection (HRP) was a scheme to help protect…
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Data protection rules for businesses in recruiting staff, keeping staff records and using CCTV
Apply for protection against infringements of intellectual property rights on imports into and exports out of the UK.
How UK persons’ trading interests are protected and when authorisations must be obtained to trade with countries subject to specific extraterritorial laws.
For company directors, LLP members or people with significant control (PSCs) who are at serious risk and want to protect their personal information from the public.
This guide is to help you and your business understand issues around data protection and privacy. It is intended for organisations that provide online services likely to be accessed by children.
What intellectual property is, how you can protect it, and which of copyright, patents, design right and trade marks applies to your work
The Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) has closed. It has been replaced by the National Protective Security Authority (NPSA).
A form of IP that extends the protection of patented active ingredients present in pharmaceutical or plant protection products.
Court of Protection forms including the COP1 application to make decisions on someone's behalf.
How you can lose your protected allowances on pension savings, how to avoid this and how to tell HMRC if you lose protection.
How to apply for and check protections from the reductions in lifetime allowance.
Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.
Apply for a forced marriage protection order - documents, urgent orders, attend a hearing
Policy and guidance on health, safety and environmental protection with the Ministry of Defence.
The UK is a world leader and innovator in cultural heritage protection and has taken concrete steps to safeguard some of humanity’s most valued cultural heritage.
You must join a client money protection scheme if you're a property agent in the private rented sector in England and you hold clients' money.
The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) helps to protect and improve the environment by holding government and other public authorities to account. OEP is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs .
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