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Local Authorities (England) (Charges for Property Searches) Regulations 2008

Paragraph (2) of Regulation 6 reads: "““Subject to paragraph (3), each charge or recharge … for access to property records made during a financial year must be calculated by … dividing a reasonable estimate of the likely total costs to the local authority in granting access to property records … during the financial year; by … a reasonable estimate of the number of requests for access to property records likely to be received””." In my view, that is explicit. It does not leave a great deal of room for manoeuvre on what the charge should be; or does it? If it does, perhaps I should be content, but my reading of the wording is that it is very explicit and that it almost sets the charge.