Labc man
To continue the point made by electromonkey
Other than installations that were shown to be absolutely shambolic,installed by builders or Joe down the road who thinks he knows a bit about electrical installation
There has not been one single prosecution for a person carrying out electrical installation to an acceptable standard where notification or lack of notification was not made
It is a standard procedure for Labc to accept a Pir and issue a regularisation certificate to get them signed off
This completely and utterly demolishes the whole point of competent person registration
Even insurance companies apparently now issue cover for diy electriucs to circumvent problems with house sales where no certification is available
The whole concept is an utter shambles and can never be made workable
One of the only groups of people affected by this shambles are fully qualified experienced electricians working for contractors or in other sectors who, because they are not registered to the nonesense, are unable to do simple domestic installation,whilst at the same time,seeing other trades,Plumbers Tilers etc, (who are permitted to carry out electrical work as part of their own trade)
These people are performing sometimes ignorantly and sometimes dangerously, while qualified sparks have to bite their anger at the nonesense of part p
These other trades routinely expand their remit of permitted work to take on full installations that were once done safely by electricians
Your posts regarding the administration of part pants and the procedures and warnings would be welcome advise, in an ideal world, where all was well in part p fairytale land
It is however an unwanted nonesense that closes out real electricians, whilst encouraging inexperienced and dangerous practices to flourish
It needs either to be altered drastically or better still.done away with
As it stands it is a useles extra expense for the law abiding spark, who now must factor in these extras, and become less competetive against those who are less competent and/or less law abiding