Can a competant person that is someone not qualified but is familiar with the present IEE regs for domestic property re-wire up to a new CU including fitting sockets then get a qualified electrician to install CU and connect to mains and give a Part P certificate for the whole of the installation. The wiring under floorboards all accessible.
Electrics - interpreting regulations
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Yes, but you have to appoint the electrician before starting any work, and he has to be registered as a third-party certifier.
Just doing the work and then hoping to get someone in to sign it off will not work.
Just doing the work and then hoping to get someone in to sign it off will not work.
Have any of the scheme providers made any statements on this yet? I can't find anything on the NICEIC website. (Their Part P fact sheet hasn't been updated either)
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It is because the agreement that they have with their scheme provider allows them to certify and notify the work as being their own work
(ie designed, installed and tested).
If they sign off work that you have installed its fraud. They open themselves up to the legal process if (for instance) they signed that the work complies with BS7671 and Building Regulations and you have run a cable in the wrong place, or its undersized and someone dies/gets injured.
It is their name on the cert, not yours.
Engage a friendly electrician first. He will probably be happy fro you to do the donkey work, under his guidance.
I suspect that the OP was talking about the 'new system', whereby he could do not just the 'donkey work' but, in fact, all the work (if he were competent {everyday sense} and so wished) - if, that is, he could find out what a 'third party certifier' was, and then find one!!
Kind Regards, John
By law.
Building Regulations Part P is a Statutory Instrument (ie LAW)
This can be found on the DIYNOT WIKI
//www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:part_p:statutory_instrument
The Part P approved document proviudes guidance on how the legislation may be met. This can be found at
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/BR_PDF_AD_P_2013.pdf
This can be found on the DIYNOT WIKI
//www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:part_p:statutory_instrument
The Part P approved document proviudes guidance on how the legislation may be met. This can be found at
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/BR_PDF_AD_P_2013.pdf
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2214/contents/made
as amended by
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3119/contents/made
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/181/contents/made
Explanatory notes & compliance advice: http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/buildingregulations/approveddocuments/partp/approved
The Wiki article is out of date - it doesn't have the current list of notifiable works, nor does it talk about third-party certifiers.
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