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Shops encouraged to sell all remaining stock before 1 June 2025 deadline
You must not supply certain single-use plastic items in England, except for some exemptions.
How a product complies with EU safety, health and environmental requirements, and how to place a CE marking on your product.
Information on UK sanctions currently in place and how to apply for the appropriate licences.
Schools can sanction pupils or exclude them - find out what schools are allowed to do, like search pupils for knives or drugs
When you can be banned from driving, check when your driving ban ends, reduce your disqualification period, disqualified until you've passed your test, drink-driving offences
When to tell a potential employer, university, college or insurance company about a criminal record, when it becomes 'spent' and what shows up on a DBS check.
The rules on bringing food or animal products into Great Britain from abroad: restrictions, types of food and the amount you can bring.
How to appeal to the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission if you disagree with a Home Office decision to ban an organisation.
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