Mike Cross I applaud your detailed knowledge of various national & international aviation Quango bodies' regulations & your help in providing answers here to difficult questions as to their interpretation.
However I wouldn't accept your proposition that LAA rules which can, or are broken & difficult to enforce, should not be in place. That's a poor reason: criminals also manage to elude the full power of our Kindom's Law, but we don't repeal the respective Acts.
Mike, can't you please accept that the LAA is a mutual organisation, run for its members by its members, after much consideration we have ruled that all folk benefitting from their Permit services must be ordinary members & pay accordingly.
Why do you keep banging on about hypothetical or potential recalcitrant Group owners not contributing ? Is it that you know of a single unresolved example, or do you just like controversy? ..............................
mikehallam.