This site is awash with posts ranging from polite enquiries to full-on flame wars on this subject, this one including the HSE view for example..I was under the impression that the HSE were the judges of who is considered a competent person.
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For this thread all that matters is what the OP's LABC thinks so let's not hijack it to discuss what competent person means.