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PROPOSED ELECTRICAL LEGISLATION

John Peckham
The government have produced draft regulations on the periodic inspection and testing of domestic installations.


It can be found here http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2020/9780111191934


I have serious concerns with the proposed definition of "qualified" as it does not require anyone to have any qualifications whatsoever , so it does not do what it says on the tin. It perpetuates the current practice of any knuckle scraping half whit who does not know their amp from the elbow carrying out inspection and testing. Without setting out defined required qualifications it becomes unenforceable.


Unless an MP makes an objection as Secondary it will become law without debate. I have written to my recently Knighted MP this morning to explain my views on the proposed legislation and in particular the definition of "Qualified" that contains no requirement to have any qualifications. 


Unless the government gets any objections these Regulations will become law. Only an MP can get proposed secondary legislation changed.


You may wish to join me in writing to your MP?
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    To anyone who intends to Email their MP but has not done so, it is worthwhile to include Luke Spanton at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (his Email at the end of the MEMORANDUM   as he is  the as the civil servant charged with getting it through comittee.  He will not appreciate insults, after all he is only doing his job as requested, but constructively worded  'how to make this work in a better way ' advice seems to be favourably received, even at this regrettably late stage, and misses out the delay while your own MP gets round reading the post and then to forwarding it to his boss and then in turn at some time even later it gets forwarded on to him. You always have to contact via your MP, or your comment/observsation is void, but doing so in a way that fast tracks it the final recipient cannot be a bad thing ( !! well it worked for me, I was staggered to get a phone call this morning thanking me for indicating my concerns - sounded like others maybe have not yet reached his desk).


    Our conversation covered the fact that there is a problem with 'ambulatory legislation ' (civil service legal speak, not mine) in that they cannot refer to documents that do not yet exist, or at least not without changes to the legal framework that are beyond the current exercise, so they are stuck with the 18th.

    But he seemed open to the idea that proposing a better way of handing older installations may be worthy of consideration, and even the scandandalous suggestion that NICEC/ESF and NAPIT may not be without a degree of vested interest in getting work in for their own members.

    If I had thought about quick enough it some clarification of C1/2 3 may have been in order...

    Anyway if it helps others.
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    To anyone who intends to Email their MP but has not done so, it is worthwhile to include Luke Spanton at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (his Email at the end of the MEMORANDUM   as he is  the as the civil servant charged with getting it through comittee.  He will not appreciate insults, after all he is only doing his job as requested, but constructively worded  'how to make this work in a better way ' advice seems to be favourably received, even at this regrettably late stage, and misses out the delay while your own MP gets round reading the post and then to forwarding it to his boss and then in turn at some time even later it gets forwarded on to him. You always have to contact via your MP, or your comment/observsation is void, but doing so in a way that fast tracks it the final recipient cannot be a bad thing ( !! well it worked for me, I was staggered to get a phone call this morning thanking me for indicating my concerns - sounded like others maybe have not yet reached his desk).


    Our conversation covered the fact that there is a problem with 'ambulatory legislation ' (civil service legal speak, not mine) in that they cannot refer to documents that do not yet exist, or at least not without changes to the legal framework that are beyond the current exercise, so they are stuck with the 18th.

    But he seemed open to the idea that proposing a better way of handing older installations may be worthy of consideration, and even the scandandalous suggestion that NICEC/ESF and NAPIT may not be without a degree of vested interest in getting work in for their own members.

    If I had thought about quick enough it some clarification of C1/2 3 may have been in order...

    Anyway if it helps others.
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