A legal register is only useful if a reader can tell at a glance which lines actually bite on this business. That is the first thing I check when one reaches me, and it is why the classification matters far more than the length of the list.
Further guidance on legal compliance:
Legal Register Preparation
Every management system standard asks you to know which laws apply to you and to show you are meeting them. Most legal registers fail on the first half. They are a long list of every piece of UK legislation somebody could think of, which proves nothing except that a list exists, and they age badly because nobody wants to read 300 rows to find the twelve that matter.
This service builds a register around your business. Every item is there because it applies to you, marked with how it applies, and tied to the policy or procedure where you deal with it.
What You Get
For the day:
- The ER9 legal register completed - legislation selected for your sector and activities, organised by area rather than dumped in one list
- Each item classified - what genuinely bites on your operations, what applies in a general way, and what does not apply to you at all, so the register tells a reader where to look
- Your compliance recorded against each item - how you meet it, and which of your own policies or procedures is the evidence
- The written summary - either the standalone F-IMS27 Legal Register form or the legal compliance section of your IMS manual, drawn from the register so the two cannot drift apart
- A review sheet set up - so new and pending legislation has somewhere to go, which is what turns a register into something maintained rather than something dated
- Gaps flagged - where a legal duty has no policy behind it, you get told, because that is the finding an assessor is looking for
How Much One Day Covers
Your register and its written summary. There is no cap on the number of entries. What moves the time is the business - multiple sites, permits, regulated activities or supply into the EU and other export markets all widen the register. The more context and information you give us, the better what we prepare will be. We work through as much as the time allows, in the order that matters most to you.
How the Work Gets Done
We use our own AI tooling to do the mechanical part of document preparation, and a consultant checks the output before it reaches you. On a legal register the tooling does the assembly and the cross-referencing - building the register from the master list, aligning the reference numbering, matching your policies to the duties they answer, and keeping the Word summary consistent with the spreadsheet behind it.
Which legislation applies to your business is a consultant's decision, and it is made by a person. So is the judgement about whether something bites hard on you or sits in the background. Getting that wrong is how registers end up either useless or alarming.
The register and the templates are ours, maintained against UK legislation as it changes, and they are not AI generated. We do not invent statutory references, and anything we are not sure applies to you comes back as a question rather than a row.
Why a Day Goes This Far
Anyone can rent the same AI we use. What they cannot rent is what we point it at.
Behind this service is a document library built over 25 years - manuals, procedures, policies, registers, risk assessments, COSHH assessments, audit checklists and forms, covering every standard we work to and most situations a management system runs into. Each one has been through real audits, and corrected where an assessor pushed back. That is the part that took 25 years, and it is the part that cannot be generated.
Our tooling applies that library to your business. A general purpose AI, pointed at the same job, has nothing to apply, so it writes something that reads well and describes a company that does not exist.
What We Need From You
- What your business does, where it operates and roughly how many people you employ
- Whether you hold any permits, licences or consents
- Your existing policies and procedures, so the register can point at them
- Any legal register you already have
- Whether you supply into the EU or other export markets
Other Things Remote Support Covers
A support day does not have to be spent on the legal register. The same day can be pointed at any one of these instead, and it is the same purchase either way:
A day can also go on things that are not document preparation at all - training, internal audits, a gap analysis, or simply working through a problem on a call. Remote Support - Project is the same day bought without a job attached to it.
Every one of these services is listed on the ISO consultancy support page, along with how a support day works and what is covered by a subscription.