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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.

1,197 matching statutes

  • United Kingdom

    Friendly Societies Act 1992

    14 provisions

    This Part gives the FCA and other authorities functions over friendly societies, sets rules for registration, governance, accounts, fees, investments, dissolution, and notices, and creates some offences for non-compliance.

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  • United Kingdom

    Trade Marks Act 1938 (repealed 31.10.1994)

    3 provisions

    This provision sets up the trade mark register, lets the public inspect it, and gives registered proprietors certain exclusive rights and related application, opposition, renewal, and assignment rules.

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  • United Kingdom

    Henry Johnson, Sons & Co., Limited Act 1996

    1 provisions

    This Act lets the Company be registered in France, then requires notice and documents to be sent to the registrar, after which the company is removed from the English register.

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  • United Kingdom

    Medicines Act 1968

    6 provisions

    This provision sets out pharmacy and medicines rules, including supervision-based exemptions, ministerial powers to regulate or restrict medicinal products, duties for responsible pharmacists and superintendents, registration rules, and criminal offences for adulteration and other breaches.

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  • United Kingdom

    Firearms Act 1968

    5 provisions

    This provision sets out many firearms offences, mainly banning possession, purchase, acquisition, sale, transfer, repair, testing, or proof of certain firearms, ammunition, and prohibited weapons without the required certificate, authority, registration, or exemption.

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  • United Kingdom

    Law of Property Act 1969

    2 provisions

    This Act changes parts of the landlord-and-tenant and land-charges rules, including rent determination, notice rules, court powers, registry closure, indemnity, and compensation provisions.

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  • United Kingdom

    Companies (Consolidation) Act 1908

    8 provisions

    This provision sets company formation and registration rules, requires certain filings and records, limits some names and landholding, and gives members inspection and copy rights for the register.

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  • United Kingdom

    Data (Use and Access) Act 2025

    11 provisions

    This Part lets the Secretary of State and the Treasury make regulations about access to customer data and business data, including how data holders must provide, produce, collect, retain, publish, or change data.

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  • United Kingdom

    Firearms Act 1965

    1 provisions

    This Act adds firearms offences, police powers, dealer registration conditions, and related penalties.

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  • United Kingdom

    anaw/2016/2/2026-04-01

    8 provisions

    This Part sets rules for registering and regulating social care service providers in Wales, including applications, annual returns, variations, and cancellation.

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  • United Kingdom

    anaw/2017/2/2026-04-29

    4 provisions

    This Part summarizes the Act’s main provisions, including a Welsh obesity strategy, smoke-free rules, tobacco retailer registration, and enforcement.

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  • United Kingdom

    Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980

    7 provisions

    This provision sets up the Law Society of Scotland and its Council, requires the Council to run key regulatory functions, and limits who may practise as a solicitor without a practising certificate.

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  • United Kingdom

    Building Societies Act 1986

    22 provisions

    This part sets functions for the FCA, PRA, Treasury, Commission and auditors, and imposes several operating rules on building societies.

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  • United Kingdom

    Registered Designs Act 1949

    5 provisions

    This provision sets out how registered designs are defined, registered, protected, renewed, challenged, and transferred.

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  • United Kingdom

    London Local Authorities Act 1995

    2 provisions

    This Act gives London local authorities extra powers over parking, temporary waiting restrictions, advertising controls, and licensing of near beer premises and door supervisors.

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  • United Kingdom

    Road Safety Act 2006

    6 provisions

    This Act makes a range of road-traffic changes, including powers to fund road safety measures, rules for fixed penalties and driving-record endorsements, and offences and conditions tied to vehicle prohibitions and alcohol ignition interlock programmes.

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  • United Kingdom

    Taxation (Post-transition Period) Act 2020

    5 provisions

    The Act creates customs and excise charges for certain goods moving between Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and the EU, and lets the Treasury and Commissioners make detailed regulations.

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