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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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    the requirement that every tenanted home is going to be certified as being up to a minimum standard in fifteen months from now with any remedial work simply requires the bar fpr that minimum standard to be set suitably low.... That is not at BS7671 18th edition, and all non compliances fixed, which is how the proposal looks currently, so old colours, plastic boxes overhead cables of unknown clipping, buried joints and all the stuff that might be C3 or no comment in some cases and not others,  all is still in scope.  Indeed as noted the IET themselves do go to the trouble to  point out that installations to older versions of the regs may well be OK for continued use - but there is no such provision in this draft legislation,  - so it really needs changing or it will be laughed out.


    Equally  "all live parts are OK behind not less than one layer of insulation tape" may be nearer the aspirations of some at the shallow end  and that needs bucking up too.

    However, I'm not sure that is quite the right intention of the legislation either.


    I'm very much with DZ here, that there are many strictly 'non compliant' things that if they are not giving trouble can just be  checked over see if they can be allowed to continue in service.
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    the requirement that every tenanted home is going to be certified as being up to a minimum standard in fifteen months from now with any remedial work simply requires the bar fpr that minimum standard to be set suitably low.... That is not at BS7671 18th edition, and all non compliances fixed, which is how the proposal looks currently, so old colours, plastic boxes overhead cables of unknown clipping, buried joints and all the stuff that might be C3 or no comment in some cases and not others,  all is still in scope.  Indeed as noted the IET themselves do go to the trouble to  point out that installations to older versions of the regs may well be OK for continued use - but there is no such provision in this draft legislation,  - so it really needs changing or it will be laughed out.


    Equally  "all live parts are OK behind not less than one layer of insulation tape" may be nearer the aspirations of some at the shallow end  and that needs bucking up too.

    However, I'm not sure that is quite the right intention of the legislation either.


    I'm very much with DZ here, that there are many strictly 'non compliant' things that if they are not giving trouble can just be  checked over see if they can be allowed to continue in service.
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