PUBLICATION SCHEME

Section 9 Charging for publications

Most of the information in this Publication Scheme is available free. We show in Appendix 1, with the classes of information, what information we may charge for. If we charge, we will tell you how much when you ask for the information. You will have to pay the charge before we send the information to you.

Information available free on our website www.slab.org.uk. For people who have access to a computer but without internet access, we may also be able to supply information from our website on CD-ROM (though we may charge for this). For those without computer or internet access, a single printout of information from our website, up to a maximum of 50 pages, is available by post. You can ask for this from the Communications Department, and we will give it to you free, unless we have said otherwise on the website.

Printed information available free - We will not charge for providing single copies of information leaflets and related material unless they are published for sale.

Information available on payment of a charge - We may charge for certain items, for example books and CD-ROMs. If so, we will show this in the relevant entry in the Appendix. We will also let you know about any extra costs (including any postage and packing) when you ask for the information. You must pay any charges before we send you the information.

We will also make a charge for requests for multiple printouts, publications or for archived copies of documents that are no longer available on the web. We will charge 10p a page for printed copies. We will let you know this when you ask for the material and you will have to pay the charge
in advance.

Other charges (such as printing, photocopying, faxing, postage and packing costs) – We may charge for postage and packing on certain items, such as books, CD-ROMs or heavy packages. We may also charge for storage media (such as floppy disks or CD-ROMs) for information supplied in an electronic format. This will be no more than it costs us.

Information published by the Board ’s print contractors - Our print contractors publish some of the information in this scheme (in hard copy or on CD-ROM) and, if so, we show this in the relevant entry in the Appendix. Our print contractors may make a charge for published information.

To order materials, please refer to Section 8. The Board has the discretion to supply the information free of charge even where a charge would otherwise apply.