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Business registration in United Kingdom

Registration, licensing, names, permits, and formal establishment requirements. These records come from release legal-2026.07.26-907 and link directly to stored legal text.

1,114 matching statutes

  • United Kingdom

    Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988

    2 provisions

    This provision strengthens firearms controls, creates related offences and penalties, and sets out licensing, approval, notice, and museum-licence rules.

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  • United Kingdom

    Finance Act 2020

    9 provisions

    This provision sets several tax rules and exemptions, including income tax and corporation tax rates, and creates or updates certain tax reliefs and HMRC powers.

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  • United Kingdom

    Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995

    3 provisions

    This provision says many contracts and trusts do not need writing, but certain land, gratuitous, trust, and testamentary documents do; it also sets rules for subscribing, authenticating, witnessing, court certificates, and electronic documents.

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  • United Kingdom

    Lloyds TSB Act 1998

    1 provisions

    This Act transfers TSB Bank plc and Hill Samuel Bank Limited undertakings to Lloyds Bank Plc and sets rules for notices, continuity, and related effects.

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  • United Kingdom

    City of Westminster Act 1999

    2 provisions

    Westminster street trading is banned unless the person has a street trading licence or temporary licence, and the council can set conditions, issue notices, and manage licences.

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  • United Kingdom

    London Local Authorities Act 1991

    1 provisions

    This Act gives London borough councils powers over special treatment premises, certain local highway matters, and audible intruder alarms.

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  • United Kingdom

    Broadcasting Act 1981

    5 provisions

    This provision sets out the broadcasting authority’s core duties, powers, and limits, including programme standards, advertising controls, and special rules for the Fourth Channel and teletext.

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  • United Kingdom

    Rent Act 1977

    8 provisions

    This provision defines protected, statutory, and regulated tenancies and sets out core tenant rights, tenant duties, landlord limits, and some exclusion rules.

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  • United Kingdom

    Factories Act 1937

    6 provisions

    This part requires factories to keep premises clean, manage overcrowding, and provide safe temperature, ventilation, lighting, and sanitation, with detailed machinery, lifting, and boiler safety rules.

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  • United Kingdom

    Factories Act 1961

    3 provisions

    Factories must be kept clean and maintained with basic safety, hygiene, ventilation, lighting, washing, sanitary, and boiler safety measures.

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  • United Kingdom

    Housing and Planning Act 2016

    10 provisions

    This segment sets rules for starter homes, self-build housing, rogue landlord controls, and rent repayment orders, including duties for planning authorities and powers for the Secretary of State.

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  • United Kingdom

    Employment Relations Act 1999

    5 provisions

    This provision adds workplace rights and procedures on trade union recognition, training meetings, and accompaniment at disciplinary or grievance hearings.

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  • United Kingdom

    Administration of Justice Act 1970

    2 provisions

    This provision amends court procedure and related laws, creates a debt-collection harassment offence, and gives several courts and judges specific powers in listed situations.

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  • United Kingdom

    Care Act 2014

    8 provisions

    This provision sets out local authorities’ core duties for adults’ care and support, including promoting well-being, assessing needs, providing information and advice, supporting carers, and charging only within statutory limits.

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  • United Kingdom

    National Australia Group Europe Act 2001

    1 provisions

    This Act transfers Yorkshire Bank’s undertaking to Clydesdale Bank on the appointed day and updates related rights, contracts, data, and pension arrangements.

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  • United Kingdom

    Companies Act 1989

    11 provisions

    This provision amends company-investigation powers, document-production rules, disclosure limits, overseas regulatory assistance, and several related offences and penalties.

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  • United Kingdom

    Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2011

    3 provisions

    This Act authorises specified public spending and income use for the year ending 31 March 2012, sets appropriation limits, and requires most money received by relevant departments or persons to be paid into the Consolidated Fund unless an exception applies.

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  • United Kingdom

    anaw/2017/1/2026-02-13

    11 provisions

    This Act charges land transaction tax on land transactions and gives the Welsh Revenue Authority responsibility for collecting and managing the tax.

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  • United Kingdom

    Insolvency Act 1985

    1 provisions

    The provision sets rules for UK insolvency orders across different parts of the UK, gives the Secretary of State power to make related orders, requires courts to assist each other, and disqualifies bankrupt individuals from certain parliamentary roles.

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  • United Kingdom

    mwa/2011/4/2025-04-01

    4 provisions

    Local authorities must carry out election-related surveys, report the results to the Welsh Ministers on time, and make arrangements for annual member reports and democratic services governance.

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