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Cutting Meter seals

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Elsewhere, one person says they were told by a DNO that cutting seals on service fuses is not illegal, but abstraction is, whereas someone else argues that cutting seals is illegal - consider the EWR, the HSAWA, and the Theft Act, that each in their own way will deem it illegal, but it needs the DNO to chase it up. So, what's your take on it?


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    My local DNO, SSE, permits registered electricians to remove single phase service fuses.


    At a pinch, it may amount to criminal damage.


    A general defence to a crime is that it prevents a worse crime. So avoidance of working live might, arguably, prevent transgression of R. 14 of EAWR 1989. I think that such an argument fails because one may always request the DNO to remove the fuse; and the DNO will not refuse.
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    My local DNO, SSE, permits registered electricians to remove single phase service fuses.


    At a pinch, it may amount to criminal damage.


    A general defence to a crime is that it prevents a worse crime. So avoidance of working live might, arguably, prevent transgression of R. 14 of EAWR 1989. I think that such an argument fails because one may always request the DNO to remove the fuse; and the DNO will not refuse.
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