You must remember that anything requiring the involvement of the ESB (who are the DSO for the south of Ireland) would require a Completion Certificate from a REC, and would need a valid QC (Qualified Certifier) Number to be processed. So there are a number of ways in which the legal requirement can be pushed.
I presume that "DSO" is what we would call "DNO" in the UK? If so, is the situation in Ireland different from that in the UK (where there would only rarely be any DNO involvement in work on electrical installations).
Do Irish installations commonly (if ever) have post-meter isolators and/or isolators built into meters?
Thanks. Do you know whether the recently-reported case was the first successful prosecution under these regulations, or the first prosecution which had resulted in a custodial sentence (or neither, given that journalists are not necessarily right!!).
In that case I presume that there is a lot of domestic electrical work done which doesn't require DSO involvement?
Thanks. Indeed so - although we are told that (whether he should have done so or not!) the judge very much took into account the poor and dangerous nature of the work concerned. That obviously a very different matter and (particularly if there have been previous prosecutions without custodial sentences) suggests that the courts would be much more lenient if the quality/safety of the work was not in question, the offences being 'bureaucratic' ones relating to doing the work without the necessary registration and falsely claiming to be registered.
Sure, but you suggested that the fact that DSOs would require a Completion Certificate before re-energising an installation would 'catch' (or deter) unregistered people, but it sounds as if that would rarely be the case - primarily only in cases of CU changes when an isolator was not fitted.
Who knows. What sort of sentences are have been handed down when someone has undertaken perfectly satisfactory/safe work, the only offence being that they were not registered to do it (and/or falsely claimed to have such registration)?
As I said earlier, I personally feel that it is interesting here, since it relates to a system which I recently suggested (here) might perhaps be what we ought to have (at least, for 'paid electrical work') in the UK. If you feel that it is not best placed in this forum, it's obviously open to you to decide not to read the thread.
I did say "primarily"! If you look, for example, at this forum, very very little of the work discussed would require DNO involvement. In the case you mention of houses which have been unoccupied for a significant period of time, even if there was a suspicion that work had been done on the electrical installation by a "non-REC", it would presumably often/usually be impossible to ascertain who had done that work?
Sure, I realise that. I wondered if you knew whether poor standard of work was often mentioned in the course of the prosecutions.
Basically all work involving a distribution board, including new circuits or protective devices. Also inspection and testing, etc.
How could one restrict the easy availability of materials when the typical border crossing looks like this?
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