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Business registration in United Kingdom

Registration, licensing, names, permits, and formal establishment requirements. Every result links to its stored legal text and available official source evidence.

1,114 matching statutes

  • United Kingdom

    Dentists Act 1984

    8 provisions

    This part sets up the General Dental Council’s main duties, registration system, reporting, guidance, and related powers for dentistry regulation.

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  • United Kingdom

    Limited Partnerships Act 1907

    3 provisions

    This part defines key terms for limited partnerships and sets out registration, notice, and management rules for general and limited partners.

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  • United Kingdom

    Company and Business Names (Chamber of Commerce, Etc.) Act 1999

    1 provisions

    The Secretary of State must ensure “chamber of commerce” and the Welsh equivalent are specified in the relevant name-approval regulations, must consult a representative body before deciding certain company-name approvals, and may issue guidance and amend the list of representative bodies.

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  • United Kingdom

    Companies Act 1948

    17 provisions

    This provision sets out how companies are formed, what the memorandum and articles must contain, how they may be altered, and several filing and prospectus requirements.

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  • United Kingdom

    Tobacco and Vapes Act 2026

    6 provisions

    This provision sets out major tobacco and vape retail rules, including age-of-sale offences, display notices, licensing limits, and related enforcement powers.

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  • United Kingdom

    Trade Marks Act 1994

    7 provisions

    This provision defines trade marks, sets the main registration refusal grounds, and gives registered trade mark proprietors exclusive enforcement rights, including infringement claims and delivery up.

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  • United Kingdom

    Architects Registration Act 1938 (repealed 21.7.1997)

    1 provisions

    The Act restricts use of the word “Architect” in business names unless a person is registered, while allowing specified visiting EEC architects to practise in the UK if they meet filing and certification requirements.

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  • 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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