We don’t have part P but can you tell me, just as a matter of interest, what document is issued by a BC appointed contractor following the inspection of work carried out by someone not registered?
Depends upon how involved the BC contractor has been from the start of the job.
If the job was notified from the outset and regular monitoring has taken place throughout, then I think it would be in order for a EIC to be issued.
If not, and work has been covered up before being notified, then the contractor can only issue a periodic inspection report with the appropriate limitations highlighted and applied.
It is down to the judgement of the contractor in the end.
Round here (Hants) building control will if pushed, issue a completion certificate that says ' electrical work' in the description, where it might equally say
'building of side extension' or 'fitting of windows'. There is no standard 'Part P form' from the building control side, nor as far as I can tell do they keep much of a record beyond 'something was done at this address by this person'. The person doing the I and T provides them any BS7671 style forms such as IEC or MW or in some cases an EICR or whatever. In terms of proof the BC dept are quite happy with a multi signature installation cert with all the boxes filled out by someone who they consider to be competent, though where that is in doubt, then they will do a 'first fix' visit as part of normal inspections, and they have a tame sparks they subcontract to who can come and do the testing. When I did this a few years ago I found the fees to be adjustable if you could convince them you had qualifications that meant you did not need their tame sparks to visit. As I understand it, if their sparks is involved at all, he also does the first fix inspection too, and then it is a multipart IEC with the homeowner as the installer and the contractor as the tester. But I also know that other authorities vary.
Be aware also that a great deal of electrical work, in England at least, is non-notifiable anyway. (and a great deal of what might be notifiable seems to happen anyway as well without too much ill effect ! )
In my case the Council's electrician issued an EICR - but the important bit is that BC then (on the basis of that) issued a building regs Completion Certificate.
When I last did this, I was initially issued with an Electrical Installation Condition Report. This recorded a couple of unsatisfactory elements. These were retested once rectification was complete, a Minor Electrical Installation Works Certificate issued. These were all provided to me via Building Control. Once other elements of the build were complete I was issued with a completion certificate from Building Control. I have just applied under a Building Notice to undertake further works and am expecting the same reports (without the unsatisfactory elements). Funnily enough my BC Inspector called this morning to confirm we will be going through the same process (and to confirm the fee).
