Replacing shaver light - wired to the mains circuit

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Hello. My shaver light/socket (inherited with the flat a decade ago) has failed so I'm going to replace it....but when isolating it have found it's supplied from the House Ring circuit breaker (B32) rather than the Lighting (B6) one, both on the same RCD. Had planned only on replacing the shaver light+socket with the current version of the same thing but am not keen to now until I know if being installed on the Ring is safe for these things. Can anyone tell me if this is/was a common thing to do? Or is it dodgy and should be changed asap?

Thanks for your advice, I do appreciate it.
 
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Could it be fed from a fused spur from the ring final circuit ?
Doesn't have to be though.
 
I don't know about the fused spur - the cabling disappears into a tiled wall so it's gone from view at that point.
I got alerted to the Lighting or Ring circuit when I had a look at the replacement unit's fitting instructions - wanted to check there was nothing I didn't understand before starting - and they say "securely mounted and safely connected to the mains supply (lighting circuit).". And of course this'd be to the Ring circuit. From what EFLImpudence said it seems that'd be OK.
 
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