On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 10:13:53 +0000 John Rumm wrote :
I suppose you could argue that building regs fall into this category.

For Building Regs this has been the case since 1875 when the Public
Health Act gave local authorities the power to make byelaws concerning
buildings. Most followed the model byelaws but there were local
variations.

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