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Register with the Care Inspectorate to operate a residential care home in Scotland

You need to register with the Health and Social Care Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) in Northern Ireland to run a residential care home

It is a legal requirement for residential childcare managers in Wales to register with Social Care Wales.

It is a legal requirement for residential childcare workers in Wales to register with Social Care Wales.

It is a legal requirement for residential family centre managers in Wales to register with Social Care Wales.

You must register with the Health and Social Care Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) in Northern Ireland to operate a residential family centre

You need to register to provide a residential family centre service in Wales.

It is a legal requirement for residential family centre workers in Wales to register with Social Care Wales.

Apply for a riding establishment licence if you want to run a business where horses or ponies are hired out for riding in Northern Ireland

Apply for a riding establishment licence if you want to run a business where horses or ponies are hired out for riding or used for riding instruction in Wales or Scotland

You must get a road occupation licence from the council to occupy any part of the road in connection with building work in Scotland - fines, penalties

You must get a licence from the council to dig up the road, or temporarily occupy it in connection with building work - fines, penalties

You need a valid road opening permit to excavate under any public road, footway or footpath in Scotland

Get a general or special safety certificate for a sports ground or football ground.

What you need to do if you want to get a safety certificate for a sports ground

You need a licence from the local authority to put up scaffolding or hoarding on a public highway in the UK.

You need a licence to carry out work that would demolish, damage, remove, repair, alter or add to a scheduled monument, or to carry out any flooding or tipping operations on land in, on, or under a monument

You need consent to carry out works that might affect a scheduled monument in Northern Ireland

You must have consent to carry out any works to a scheduled monument.

You need approval by the Department for Education in Northern Ireland to cater for special education in a non-maintained school

You must get a scrap metal dealer licence from the council if you buy, sell or store scrap metal

You need a seabed lease from The Crown Estate to operate a marine fish farm in coastal waters

Contact your council if you want to register as a second hand dealer in Scotland - exemptions, restrictions, fines and penalties

You need to register to provide a secure accommodation service for children in Wales.

You must register your potato seed crop in Northern Ireland with DARD

You must notify DARD if you intend to import seed potatoes into Northern Ireland

You must notify the police of the sale or disposal of a firearm to anyone in the UK who is not a firearms dealer

Apply for a senior marine engine operator licence to work as a chief engineer officer on vessels of less than 750 kW power, without area restrictions.

Contact your council for a licence if you want to run a sex establishment or sex cinema in Northern Ireland

Contact your council for a sex establishment licence if you want to run a sex shop or adult cinema

Contact your council for a licence if you want to run a sex shop in Scotland

You need a licence from DARD for exclusive shellfish cultivation and taking rights for a specified area in Northern Ireland

You must have your shellfish harvesting area classified by the Food Standards Agency in Northern Ireland

You need a ship sanitation certificate if you own a ship that operates between countries or offshore

You need a wildlife licence if you want to shoot cormorants for the purpose of preventing serious damage to a fishery in Northern Ireland

You need a firearm or shotgun certificate issued by the police to possess, buy or acquire a firearm or shotgun, and buy ammunition

You must notify NIEA of changes to silos, slurry storage and agricultural fuel oil storage systems

You or the skip hire company need a skip licence/permit if you want to put a skip on a public road. You may need safety lights, traffic cones or markings

Get a permit to place a skip on a public road - local authority Scotland, road occupation, skip licence

Get a skip permit for your skip hire company - skip hire licence, local authority, highway act

You need a full or temporary Certificate of Competence to perform many of the tasks required in a slaughterhouse.

You need to have a licence to operate as a slaughterman in Northern Ireland

You need to register with the Welsh Ministers to operate as a social landlord in Wales

Social work students must register with Social Care Wales upon enrolling on the social work degree course in Wales.

It is a legal requirement for social workers in Wales to register with Social Care Wales.

You must have a practicing certificate from the Solicitors Regulation Authority to work as a solicitor in England and Wales

You need a practicing certificate to practise as a solicitor in Northern Ireland

To practise as a solicitor in Scotland, you must be admitted as a solicitor, have your name on the roll and hold a practising certificate

You may need a pollution prevention and control (PPC) permit if you run a business in Scotland that uses organic solvents

You need approval by the Welsh Government if you run an independent school in Wales that admits children with special educational needs