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Window cleaners licensing
If you're cleaning windows in Orkney, you need a Window Cleaner's Licence. This applies to businesses, self-employed people and employees. Each employee or agent cleaning windows needs their own individual licence.
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Window Cleaner Guidance Notes
This document contains guidance on window cleaner licensing in the Orkney Islands. It explains who needs a licence, insurance requirements, application forms, fees, photographs and deadlines, and how applications are assessed. It also covers licence conditions, identification badges, reporting changes, renewals, refusals and appeals. The guidance outlines offences, penalties and how the Council uses and shares applicants’ personal information.
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Window Cleaner Application Form
This document contains an application form for granting or renewing a window cleaner’s licence from Orkney Islands Council. It asks individuals or businesses for contact details, management information, work area, health information, convictions and details of previous licence applications. Applicants must choose a one- or three-year licence, sign a declaration and provide the required fee and documents. Convictions must be declared, or “None” entered, before lodging the form with Legal Services, Orkney Islands Council.
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Window Cleaner Conditions
This document contains the conditions for holding a window cleaner’s licence from Orkney Islands Council. Licence holders must carry and show their identification, keep at least £2 million public liability insurance, follow health and safety law, and provide their licence when authorised officers request it. They must report changes or lost identification, return the licence when they stop working, and behave properly without causing unnecessary inconvenience or blocking paths. Failure to follow these conditions is a criminal offence.
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