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Guidance for policy officials on how to make a legislative reform order.
What to do if you think your gas bills are high or gas meter is faulty.
Information on how businesses must notify products that pose a risk to health and safety and/or are noncompliant to the relevant authority.
An update of the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD's) contact details on the open general licence export for exhibition: military goods.
Information from the UK's assay offices giving guidance on the Hallmarking Act 1973.
Information on designs hearings including costs and how to appeal against an outcome.
Businesses which are members of trade associations or other business groups can benefit from Primary Authority.
If you're an electricity producer or energy supplier, find out how and when to send HMRC your returns.
Principles setting out what the Environment Agency expects from permit holders carrying out radioactive substances activities.
Guidance for lawyers and third parties on how the CMA collects information before deciding whether to investigate a merger.
An unofficial consolidated version of the Design right (unregistered) sections of part 3 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
How we handle licence applications for people who have changed their gender.
A guide for trade associations and other organisations that help groups of businesses manage their regulatory activity as a co-ordinator.
Sets out some of the circumstances in which the CMA considers that agreements will or may be regarded as anti-competitive.
Sets out how traffic commissioners are to be satisfied as to the legal status of applicants and operators.
You can make an application to amend your patent after it has been granted either with us or at the Court.
If you made a UK application for action after 1 December 2020, you can extend it to protect your intellectual property rights at least 30 working days before it expires.
Information on changes to IPO practice on examination of inventions involving Artificial Neural Networks.
Information on how to confess a cartel, the CMA’s leniency programme and what to expect if the cartel activity was in Scotland.
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