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Food analysts are responsible for performing chemical analyses on food to ensure businesses are complying with food safety law.

Food examiners are responsible for performing microbiological analyses on food and feed to ensure businesses are complying with food safety law.

You must be licensed by the Food Standards Agency to irradiate food in Northern Ireland

You need a licence if you manufacture food and treat it with irradiation in Scotland

Get a licence for handling meat, fish, egg or dairy products.

If you're a forestry trader and want to produce or import wood or bark, or issue plant passports you must be registered with the Forestry Commission - conditions, inspections, record keeping

It is a legal requirement for fostering service managers in Wales to register with Social Care Wales.

You need to register to provide a fostering service in Wales.

To sell, supply or maintain gaming machines in Northern Ireland you need a certificate issued by the local court

You may need to notify the police if you are operating a flight arriving or departing at an undesignated port in Northern Ireland

If you wish to release genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the environment in Scotland for research and development purposes, you must obtain consent from the Scottish Government.

You need permission from the crown estate to carry out gold or silver exploration for commercial gain.

You need a lease from the Crown Estate Scotland to explore or mine gold or silver commercially in Scotland

You need a licence to operate goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes to carry goods as part of trade or business

You need a goods vehicle operator’s licence if your business uses a goods vehicle with either a gross plated weight (the maximum weight that the vehicle can have at any one time) of over 3,500 kilograms (kg) or an unladen we…

You need a licence to use government digital mapping data in an academic institution

You may need a licence to use government digital mapping data in Northern Ireland

You must inform NIEA before exporting green list waste

You must submit a completed Greenfield Soil Declaration Form to the Northern Ireland Environment Agency If you move clean, greenfield soil within Northern Ireland .

You must be registered with your council if you operate a guard dog kennel in Northern Ireland

You need a licence to drive a hackney carriage - taxicabs, England, excluding London, Scotland and Wales

You may have to register with your local council in England if you run a hairdressing or barbers business, so that they can check you're following health and safety rules

If you run a hairdressing or barbers business in Northern Ireland, you may have to register with your local district council so that they can check you're following health and safety rules

You need to pre-notify the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) 72 hours in advance if you want to move hazardous waste

Register your premises with Natural Resource Wales if you produce or hold hazardous waste in Wales

You need a licence to burn heather, rough grass, bracken, gorse or vaccinium outside the burning season in Wales

You need a wildlife licence if you want to keep, breed or exhibit birds of prey in Northern Ireland

You need a licence to get an exemption from Sunday Trading laws in Northern Ireland

You'll need a hackney vehicle licence if you want to use a horse and carriage for paying customers

Get a licence to rent out your property as a house in multiple occupation (HMO) in England or Wales - local authority, private renting, landlords, houseshare

Get a licence to rent out your property as a house in multiple occupation in Scotland (HMO) - local authority, private renting, landlords, houseshare

You need a licence to promote or make charitable house to house collections in Northern Ireland

Apply for a licence for house-to-house collections of money or goods for charity in England or Wales

You need a licence to undertake the procurement, testing, processing, preservation, storage and distribution of gametes, embryos and/or provide in-vitro fertilisation, or artificial insemination treatments

You must hold a permit to stage a public performance of hypnotism for entertainment purposes in England, Wales and Scotland - learn how to apply, conditions, fines and penalties

You must notify DARD if you import honeybees into Northern Ireland

If you impound water, or plan to, you may need to apply for an impounding licence.

If you run an independent school it must be registered with the Department of Education (DE)

You need to register with the Register of Independent Schools in Scotland to run an independent school

You need a licence from your local authority to use a property for public sporting events in Scotland.

You need a licence to carry goods (by vehicle) for payment on international journeys

You need an itinerant (travelling) metal dealer's licence to buy and sell scrap metal door-to-door in Scotland

You must have a licence to keep a dangerous wild animal in Northern Ireland

You need a licence in Scotland if you want to deal in knives, swords or weapons with blades or sharp points

You need a licence to use laser or intense pulsed light treatment

Some practitioners need to register to offer treatments that use intense pulsed light systems or lasers in England

You need to register to offer treatments that use intense pulsed light systems or lasers in Wales

You need a late hours catering licence if you want to sell food or drinks between 11pm and 5am in Scotland

You must register with the Education Workforce Council to be employed as a learning support worker in Wales.

You need a licence to operate a left-hand drive (LHD) stretched limousine public service vehicle in Northern Ireland