Local self help advice sheets

The guidance sheets in this section are provided by West Sussex Trading Standards to compliment the self help advice sheets provided nationally. They give further details to support the local business environment.

Animal Health

Supporting documents

• 2005 Feed hygiene regulations - Annex I (PDF, 5 pages, 135KB)
• Avian flu (PDF, 4 pages, 136KB)
• Keeping pigs (PDF, 2 pages, 100KB)
• Requirements for cattle identification (PDF, 4 pages, 114KB)

Environment

Supporting documents

• Air conditioning system inspections (PDF, 2 pages, 85KB)
• Energy performance certificates for landlords (PDF, 2 pages, 107KB)

Fair Trading

Supporting documents

• Cancellation of contracts in a consumers home or place of work
  (PDF, 5 pages, 167KB)
• Copyright designs and patents (PDF, 2 pages, 104KB)
• Credit advertising rules (PDF, 3 pages, 125KB)
• Enterprise act guidance (PDF, 3 pages, 107KB)
• How to spot a counterfeit product (PDF, 3 pages, 90KB)
• Law summary for car dealers (PDF, 5 pages, 127KB)
• Trade Marks act (PDF, 2 pages, 101KB)
• Warranties and/or guarantees (PDF, 3 pages, 106KB)
  
  
  

Food

Supporting documents

• Fish labelling (PDF, 4 pages, 105KB)
• Food labelling for small retailers (PDF, 2 pages, 153KB)
• Nuts and the food business (PDF, 1 page, 94KB)
  
  
  

Other

Supporting documents

• Road traffic (PDF, 2 pages, 104KB)
• Weighing of Goods vehicles (PDF, 2 pages, 104KB)
  
  
  

Safety

Supporting documents

• Blind cord trader guidance (PDF, 3 pages, 93KB)
• Cigarette machines (PDF, 3 pages, 126KB)
• Construction products (PDF, 2 pages, 82KB)
• Guidance for the sale and storage of poisons (PDF, 3 pages, 96KB)
• Guidance for the point of sale advertising of tobacco
  (PDF, 3 pages, 127KB)
• Home toy producers (PDF, 3 pages, 101KB)
• Motorcycle exhausts (PDF, 1 page, 97KB)
• Recreational craft (PDF, 2 pages, 100KB)
• Secondhand furniture (PDF, 2 pages, 89KB)
• Selling secondhand consumer goods (PDF, 1 page, 81KB)
• Selling secondhand upholstered baby items (PDF, 2 pages, 99KB)
• Selling tyres (PDF, 2 pages, 102KB)
  
  
  

Weights and measures

Supporting documents

• Beer, wine and spirits trades (PDF, 2 pages, 97KB)
• Bulk fuel meter repairs and dipsticks (PDF, 1 page, 85KB)
• Cubic measures sand and ballast suppliers (PDF, 1 pages 86KB)
• European community marks (PDF, 2 pages, 98KB)
• Measures of length (PDF, 2 pages, 90KB)
• Metal capacity measures (PDF, 2 pages, 90KB)
• Petrol pump repairers list (PDF, 2 pages, 89KB)
• Ready mixed cement (PDF, 2 pages, 100KB)
• Selling meat (PDF, 2 pages, 97KB)
• Weighing machine suppliers and repairers (PDF, 2 pages, 99KB)

Other sources of information

Animal health and welfare:

• Defra

Business advice:

• Business Link - Practical advice for business
• Environment Agency - Business and industry
• ERWIN - 'Everything Regulation Whenever It's Needed'
• Office of Fair Trading business advice

Consumer credit:

• Office of Fair Trading

Fireworks and explosives:

• Health and Safety Executive

Food (labelling):

• Defra (food)

Food (nutrition and healthy eating):

• Department of Health

Food (safety):

• Food Standards Agency

Product safety:

• Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

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