The guidance notes and leaflets for traders are in the following sections:
If you are an Wirral trader or resident, copies of these notes are available free of charge. Just click on the 
button beside the title.
Animal health and welfare
Credit
- Application for a consumer credit licence (OFT)
- Do you need a credit licence (OFT)
- Regulated and exempt agreements (OFT)
- Credit Advertising (OFT)
- Credit charges (OFT)
- Cancellable agreements (OFT)
- Non cancellable agreements (OFT)
- Matters arising during the lifetime of an agreement (OFT)
- Hire agreements (OFT)
- Restrictive Agreements (OFT)
Europe
- Machinery (DTI)
- Toy safety (DTI)
- Construction products (DTI)
- Personal protective equipment (DTI)
- Non automatic weighing instruments (DTI)
- Gas appliances (DTI)
- Electromagnetic compatibility (DTI)
- Electrical equipment (DTI)
- Efficiency Requirements for hot water boilers (DTI)
Food
- Food Safety Act and you (MAFF: Foodsense)
- Sweeteners in food regulations 1995 and you (MAFF: Foodsense)
- Colours in food regulations 1995 and you (MAFF: Foodsense)
- New food additives legislation and you (MAFF: Foodsense)
- Miscellaneous food additives regulations 1995 and you (MAFF: Foodsense)
- New rules for selling non-foods loose by measurement (DTI)
- New rules for food labelling and selling (DTI)
- What foods should carry a 'use by' date? (MAFF Guidance notes)
- Guidance notes on nutrition labelling (MAFF)
Specific trade, products and miscellaneous
- Estate agency guide (OFT)
- Code of practice for traders on price indications (DTI)
- A guide to the furniture and furnishings (fire)(safety) regulations (DTI)
- Business names and business ownership (Companies House)
- Hallmarks (Assay Office)
- Nightwear and fire (DTI)
- Do you sell domestic electrical appliances - new rules about fitted plugs (DTI)
- Looking into the package travel regulations (DTI)
- The anti counterfeiting provisions of the Trade Mark Act (Patent Office)
- Registering a trade mark (Patent Office)
- The General Product Safety Regulations 1994 (DTI)
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Key
| OFT | Office of Fair Trading |
| DTI | Department of Trade and Industry |
| MAFF | Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
| CBI | Confederation of British Industry |
| LACOTS | Local authorities co-ordinating body on food and trading standards |
Further information on these and other organisations.
Trading Standards Division, 3rd Floor, Wallasey Town Hall, Brighton Street, Wallasey, Wirral CH44 8ED
Telephone: 08454 04 05 06 Fax: (0151) 691 8098
Internet World Wide Web http://www.tradingstandards.gov.uk/wirral/
Electronic Mail: tradingstandards@wirral.gov.uk
Copyright © Wirral Trading Standards Division 2007
