CHANGING A DOMESTIC FUSE BOARD
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A new connection is defined in ESQCR 24 as the expression “new connection” means the first electric line, or the replacement of an existing electric line, to one or more consumer’s installations.
Now, that does not mention a cutout or fuse. It could have done so; earlier in #24 it mentions these items as part of the DNO's equipment, so I think the omission is deliberate.
Elsewhere, the point of supply is defined as the outgoing terminals of the metering equipment. It is difficult to see how the connection can be altered by removing or replacing the cutout fuse when the lines between the consumer's installation and the meter terminals have not been touched.
Now, that does not mention a cutout or fuse. It could have done so; earlier in #24 it mentions these items as part of the DNO's equipment, so I think the omission is deliberate.
Elsewhere, the point of supply is defined as the outgoing terminals of the metering equipment. It is difficult to see how the connection can be altered by removing or replacing the cutout fuse when the lines between the consumer's installation and the meter terminals have not been touched.
I think the words 'area' and 'grey' may be appropriate.
or to put it another way, many people claim it is an offence to take out a company fuse.
No-one can show me a law that says so, and I have looked at the ones that might have been expected to.
Doesn't seem grey to me,
No-one can show me a law that says so, and I have looked at the ones that might have been expected to.
Doesn't seem grey to me,
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I have done.
You just don't accept that it makes it illegal.
Also the seals are not your property, so cutting them would be contrary to The Criminal Damage Act 1971.
But it's all academic until someone is charged with an offence when they cut the seals and/or removed/replaced the fuse and nothing went wrong.
No, I just don't accept your unconvincing argument that removing a fuse is covered by #25 of ESQCR
It isn't an offence laid down in the Electricity Act either.
If inserting the fuse does not make a connection to the distributors network then leaving it out cannot have any inconvenient consequences, can it.
No.
But you are starting out with a strong desire for the ESQCR not to make it illegal to remove or replace the fuse, so you are determined to read it that way.
I am utterly disinterested, so I am looking at it logically, trying to consider the intention.
If leaving out the fuse means that you have not broken the connection to the network, then why not leave it out?
Yes.
And the consumer's installation starts with the meter tails. The point of connection is the load terminals on the meter.
“supply terminals” means the ends of the electric lines at which the supply is delivered to a consumer’s installation;
“consumer’s installation” means the electric lines situated upon the consumer’s side of the supply terminals together with any equipment permanently connected or intended to be permanently connected thereto on that side;
Which do you think is more reasonable:
1) That the distributors would prefer it to be unlawful for unauthorised people to cut their seals and tamper with their equipment.
2) That the distributors would prefer there to be no legal constraints on unauthorised people cutting their seals and tampering with their equipment.
“consumer’s installation” means the electric lines situated upon the consumer’s side of the supply terminals together with any equipment permanently connected or intended to be permanently connected thereto on that side;
Which do you think is more reasonable:
1) That the distributors would prefer it to be unlawful for unauthorised people to cut their seals and tamper with their equipment.
2) That the distributors would prefer there to be no legal constraints on unauthorised people cutting their seals and tampering with their equipment.
Goodbye.
But you are starting out with the opinion that it is undesirable for people to cut seals and interfere with fuses, which no doubt it is.
You think it ought to be illegal, which perhaps it should.
You have a strong desire for the ESQCR to make it illegal to remove or replace the fuse, so you are determined to read it that way.
However that isn't what it says. It could have been written that way, but it wasn't.
Goodbye.
You think it ought to be illegal, which perhaps it should.
You have a strong desire for the ESQCR to make it illegal to remove or replace the fuse, so you are determined to read it that way.
However that isn't what it says. It could have been written that way, but it wasn't.
Goodbye.
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