§ (i) The Government will use all appropriate means to support and foster the achievement by BSI of the objects for which it was constituted by Royal Charter. In particular, it will maintain an annual grant-in-aid for the standards work of BSI, the level of which grant-in-aid will take account of the resources subscribed voluntarily to BSI by other bodies and of the benefit to the public interest which derives from the national standards system.
§ (ii) BSI will account annually for the expenditure of the Government's grant-in-aid in accordance with conditions which shall from time to time be agreed.