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Paperwork after rewire?

davidwalker2

I would be grateful if the experts here could tell me what paperwork I should expect having just had a new CU and complete rewire of a house.   At the moment I have a certificate from NICEIC but all it states is “Building Regulations Certificate of Completion”, but nothing else.  Should I expect more?  When I last had this done at a different house I was given a list of works completed with test results, but I do not know what is expected now.

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    David Stone said:
    Emailed Certificates without actual signatures are NOT acceptable Andy, you should know that, they are a LEGAL document!

    It's patently untrue the electronic documents cannot be accepted as legal documents.

    BS 10008 covers this, but standards have actually been in place for a very long time, meaning businesses have been able run on electronically-stored information only for all that time.

    There are also conventions in place as to what denotes "signature" or valid transmission source, including e-mails.

    Definitely this is not a legal forum, and we have to be careful where we tread with this sort of advice.

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    So here I am sitting in a court building and I have spent the morning looking at evidence in the form of scans of various documents which have not been signed, or certified as true copies.

    The majority of hospital correspondence has gone out unsigned for many years. The problem with this is that it is also unchecked by the author.

    I am not sure what amounts to a "legal document", but deeds and wills have certain requirements to ensure that they are valid.

    Otherwise the question is of admissibility. The vast majority of EICs (and EICRs) will go nowhere near a court or tribunal so as a customer, I would be happy to accept one which has not been signed, be that by pen or electronically.

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    So here I am sitting in a court building and I have spent the morning looking at evidence in the form of scans of various documents which have not been signed, or certified as true copies.

    The majority of hospital correspondence has gone out unsigned for many years. The problem with this is that it is also unchecked by the author.

    I am not sure what amounts to a "legal document", but deeds and wills have certain requirements to ensure that they are valid.

    Otherwise the question is of admissibility. The vast majority of EICs (and EICRs) will go nowhere near a court or tribunal so as a customer, I would be happy to accept one which has not been signed, be that by pen or electronically.

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