How to connect a bathroom cabinet with built in light?

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Had some work done by an NICEIC guy and unsure if it's been done properly/safely

What would be the correct and acceptable way to wire up a bathroom cabinet with an internal light? i.e. how should the cabinet flex be connected to the T&E of the lighting system in order to safe and compliant?

Please note that there isn't a recess or similar in the cabinet to hide a connection block.
 
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Where is the connection being made?
If it's behind the unit an accessible, there are number of ways that it can be done to comply.
Ideally a flex outlet.
 
Where is the connection being made?
If it's behind the unit an accessible, there are number of ways that it can be done to comply.
Ideally a flex outlet.

Unfortunately it's not behind the unit but just above it so exposed. There's no space behind the cabinet for a connector block or similar
 
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It's basically T&E that goes into a chocbox and that houses a connection block that connects to the cupboard flex. Is this right within the 17th edition? Looks messy apart from anything else having a chocbox sit on top of the cabinet
 
Have you got a picture?

It will get exposed to damp/steam at the very least and should be protected
 
As mentioned by chivers67, environmental conditions should be considered.
It's not ideal within the bathroom area to have such connections. What zone is the connection in.
Again I would put it in a flexed outlet plate.
On the schedule of inspection. What has been marked in the boxes under "general" in relationship to this circuit/alteration/addition?
 

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