Laws and legislations

There are many laws out there that cover near enough everything, so therefore with my business I will need to make sure I abide the laws which cover; health and safety, fire precautions, the environment, employee rights, the building, intellectual property (for example business names, inventions and copyrights), fair trading (consumer credit, consumer protection and competition law), keeping information about people, licences and insurance.
Health and safety is the most important thing within any business, I must make sure everyone within Alcarwash is safe first before we do anything. I am responsible for the effect that Alcarwash may have on the health and safety of your employees and the consumers. I will have to make sure I register with the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) or with my Local Authority, so that they can come to check all aspects of the business and building to make sure that everything is in place and safe to operate around without it causing any damage to anyone around it. With healthy and safety comes thigs such as fire precautions; this is because I will need to make sure all my employees know what they are doing during a fire- so therefore I’ll need to practice drills, for when there is a fire my employees are aware what to do to keep themselves and others out of danger.

Some laws set by HM Revenue & Customs, which I must abide by, are;
Sex Discrimination
The Sex Discrimination Act is a British Act of Parliament which became a law in 1975. Under the Act, people of both sexes have the right to equal opportunities in education and employment, and to be paid the same amount for doing the same work. In direct and direct discrimination are both unlawful in the Sex Discrimination Act. Direct discrimination is when someone is treated differently and not as well as other people because of their sex. Indirection