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Trading Standards produces a range of leaflets to explain the laws that affect businesses.

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Click on the links below to download each leaflet:

General leaflets 

pdf icon Trading Standards & Business [72kb]

pdf icon Ensuring compliance with Trading Standards law [92kb]

pdf icon The principle of the Home Authority [76kb]

Weights & Measures leaflets  

pdf icon Selling Metric [34kb]

pdf icon Metrication - carpets & fabrics [79kb]

Metric conversion charts 

pdf icon Weight [69kb]

pdf icon Price per kilogram/pound [69kb]

pdf icon Length [69kb]

pdf icon Price per metre/yard [69kb]

pdf icon Area [69kb]

pdf icon Price per square metre/square yard [70kb]

pdf icon Capacity [69kb]

pdf icon Price per litre/pint/gallon [70kb]

 Fair Trading leaflets  

pdf icon Disclosure of business ownership [78kb]

pdf icon Fibre content of textiles (ready-made items) [78kb]

pdf icon Fibre content of textiles [71kb]

pdf icon Your responsibilities to your customers - Sale of Goods Act 1979 [77kb]

pdf icon A guide to the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 [96kb]

pdf icon A guide to cancellation rights for contracts concluded at a consumer's home [85kb]

Underage Sales leaflets 

pdf icon Age restricted sales [76kb]

pdf icon Cigarette sales to children [82kb]

pdf icon Fireworks - a guide for retailers [85kb]

pdf icon Sales of alcohol - a guide for retailers [74kb]

pdf icon Sale of gas lighter refills and other solvents [70kb]

pdf icon Sale of aerosol spray paints [75kb]

pdf icon Knives and offensive weapons [77kb]

Safety leaflets 

pdf icon Fireworks - a guide for retailers [85kb]

pdf icon Supplying cigarette lighters [76kb]

pdf icon Safety of goods in rented accommodation [81kb]

pdf icon Supplying second-hand electrical goods [75kb]

pdf icon Supply of glazing [71kb]

pdf icon Supply of second-hand upholstered furniture [71kb]

pdf icon Supplying part-worn tyres [74kb]