This blog provides a brief overview of May’s Legal Updates, which are relevant to Quality, Environmental, Info Sec and Health & Safety to help your organisation stay aligned with the latest legal requirements.
How to use this Update:
- You should review these updates and decide whether they are applicable to your company.
- Add all relevant items to your legal resister and document your compliance.
- Ensure all policy and procedures align with the new governance and compliance requirements.
- Provide information and training to all relevant to ensure you remain compliant
- Please note ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001 and other standards require you to conduct a compliance evaluation.
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Employment
21st May
England
The Apprenticeships (Miscellaneous Provisions) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
This legislation changes the minimum duration of the practical period of an apprenticeship from 12 months to 8 months. The practical period of an apprenticeship is the period for which an apprentice is expected to work and receive training. Equivalent changes are made in relation to the period for which an apprentice is expected to work and receive training under alternative English apprenticeship arrangements.
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Finance
13th May
UK
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Commencement No. 9) Regulations 2025
These Regulations are the ninth commencement regulations made under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29) (“the Act”).
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Finance
14th May
UK
The Value Added Tax (Amendment) Regulations 2025
This instrument amends the Value Added Tax Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/2518) (“the regulations”) to address an administrative inflexibility and ensure the effective management of Value Added Tax (VAT). It provides HMRC with the power to extend by direction the length of the period a person has available to make their final return when becoming de-registered from VAT.
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Finance
15th May
UK
These Regulations increase the penalties for late payment of tax in Schedule 26 to the Finance Act 2021 (“Schedule 26”).
The Secretary of State has the power under the Communications Act 2003 (as amended by the Telecommunications (Security) Act 2021) (“the Act”) to impose a penalty on a public communications provider (“provider”)1 who does not comply with a designated vendor direction or related compliance plan. This instrument makes provision in relation to the calculation of such a penalty, which may, in the case of contravention of a designated vendor direction, be up to 10% of the provider’s turnover. This instrument specifies the relevant elements of a provider’s business that are to be taken into account for the purpose of calculating turnover.
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Finance
15th May
UK
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System Sandbox) Regulations 2025
This instrument establishes the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES) Sandbox, using the Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) powers in the Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA) 2023. These allow the Treasury to test the legal framework for a new type of stock market.
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ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 27001 and other standards require you to conduct a compliance evaluation. If you haven’t done this, we can help.
Legal Register
Assent Risk Management has made over 250 UK Legal Register entries available to search on Resilify.io’s Legal Register Database.
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