"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
nightjar nightjar@insert my surname here.uk.com wrote:
.... All state backed regulations should be available - in electronic
form - for free, or at a nominal cost in hard copy, like the Highway
Code.

In other words, they should be paid for out of general taxation, so that
all tax payers bear the cost, instead of just the people who actually
want them.

It would cost near nothing to have them available in electronic form,
since most documents start this way anyway these days.

And nominal cost for the hard copy could be the actual printing costs,
etc.
Not a figure set to discourage people from buying.

What you are paying for in a British Standard is the cost of researching it
and of reviewing it every five years. That is the same no matter how it is
presented.

Colin Bignell