A licence was obtained from the Norwegian Social Science Data Services.
The Local Research Ethics Committee approved the study and a licence was obtained from the Administration of Radioactive Substances Advisory Committee ARSACC).
Prior to October 2009, the Public Entertainments and Meetings Act ("PEMA") required a licence to be obtained from the Public Entertainments Licensing Unit (PELU) of the Singapore Police Force before talks, discussions or similar events open to the public were held.
At the moment, special licences must be obtained from the Food and Drug Administration, which imposes additional requirements on staff.Even more frustrating for cinema owners is that some of the touted benefits may not arrive for years, if at all.
The number of new licences for foreign-born physicians was obtained from the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health (Valvira).
Other data were obtained from the Liquor Licensing Authority (number of licences), New Zealand Customs (for tobacco released from bond), Statistics New Zealand (for retail sales and employment), and by interviews with government officials.
Data for 400/275/132-kV lines in Scotland were obtained from the two DNOs, which also cover the two Scottish licence areas.
Human tissues were obtained from the Guy's & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trustt research biobanks, which are licensed by the Human Tissue Authority (licence number 12121).
National data were obtained from the General Practice Research Database, GPRD (superseded by the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, CPRD, since April 2012), under a Medical Research Council (MRC) licence for academic institutions.
Ethical approval for the OS samples was obtained from the Cambridgeshire 2 Research Ethics Service, UK (reference 09/H0308/165), and the UCL Biobank for Health and Disease, which is held under the Human Tissue Authority licence 12055: project EC17.1.
