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Silly Sausage
I'm off down the council to have a chat about all this.
I'm not self certified...
I rang Manchester City Council explaining this offer of a CU change, they answer with... regardless of how qualified etc I am, it's £319 (with or without VAT, I don't know, I gave up listening then)
Explained the situation to her, it's their 'policy' that they send an 'Electrical Engineer' (ie someone like me) out to Inspect & Test.
Basically, you could replace the whole section of Part P 'Certifification of Notifiable Work' with...'If you're not Part P registered, you pay us, the council, 100s of £s'
If you look at section 1.22, the words '(if any)' let the council do what the hell the they like, ie it's just another way to extract money out of people.
Are the schemes shoving big fat brown envelopes under toilet cubicle partitions to council members?