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Correct Paperwork for Tenanted Property after UKPN call-out for EICR?

Gideon
Good afternoon, my first post here. I'm a retired SW Engineer originally qualified electrically, but asking this as the owner of a flat I let out, with an ongoing tenancy.

I recently had the flat inspected IAW the new rules for let homes. It has been regularly inspected before and brought up to date as necessary. On the new inspection the - familiar - electrician was happy with all "my" electrics, but marked the EICR Unsatisfactory because the supply head warranted checking, for which he advised me to call UKPN. Fair enough. They came round a day or two later, had a good look, and concluded it was ok. I asked if they issued any paper for that - "no, just logged on our system". But their call handler was happy enough to send me an email detailing the findings & conclusion. Electrician's happy, I'm happy, it's all safe. But the letting agents are whinging that there must be an EIC. Electrician seems quite au fait with new tenancy regs and quotes "Part 2, section 3, paragraph 5, points a-c; a written report by a qualified person" which the email satisfies. And I think I glean that the "Installation" in EIC is my/his bit, whereas UKPN deal with the "supply", so of course they can't do an EIC (and it was only a check - no work done). Yet the agents keep demanding an EIC.

Seems like a sort of bureaucratic mismatch between two organisations? Or are the lettings agent simply getting it wrong in demanding an EIC specifically, not a "written report by a qualified person"?

What do others think should happen next? Or should have happened?
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    EICRs are reports on the condition of an installation on the day it was done, signed and dated. I think it unfair to ask the electrician to issue a new EICR at a later date without checking that nothing has changed in the interim, it is extra time and expense which is totally unnecessary. It could be up to 28 days since the report was issued, the time in which any remedial works should have been completed. All that is needed is that there is a "paper" trail, to prove that any required remedial work or, more likely in this case, that "further Investigation" was done. A covering note from the electrician saying he now believes any code on the EICR is now not relevant should suffice. But to issue a new "satisfactory" EICR up to a month after testing/inspecting seems a bit much to ask.

    You can see why managing agents want a "satisfactory" EICR, it is one document that they can email to a tenant if asked for it, not possibly a folder full of different pieces of information. But that is their preference, and it is not a requirement of the legislation.

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    EICRs are reports on the condition of an installation on the day it was done, signed and dated. I think it unfair to ask the electrician to issue a new EICR at a later date without checking that nothing has changed in the interim, it is extra time and expense which is totally unnecessary. It could be up to 28 days since the report was issued, the time in which any remedial works should have been completed. All that is needed is that there is a "paper" trail, to prove that any required remedial work or, more likely in this case, that "further Investigation" was done. A covering note from the electrician saying he now believes any code on the EICR is now not relevant should suffice. But to issue a new "satisfactory" EICR up to a month after testing/inspecting seems a bit much to ask.

    You can see why managing agents want a "satisfactory" EICR, it is one document that they can email to a tenant if asked for it, not possibly a folder full of different pieces of information. But that is their preference, and it is not a requirement of the legislation.

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