If I could just add to my above comment about staffs being told not to comply with regs. You may or may not appreciate that the AD/HP1 post covered Lynx also. (A busy time, what with the MRH/tiebar problems of the day and Chinook Mk3).
So concerned were the Royal Navy over what was still happening in the mid-late 90s (the instructions being issued from on high), that a senior officer from OR wrote to AD/HP1 stating he would personally stand in support of staffs who were victimised for seeking to implement the regs on RN aircraft. The officer concerned was regarded as "very senior" by a full Colonel, to place this in context. Both were good men.