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Part 'P' Electrical Safety

Examples of Notifiable Work:

Anywhere in a dwelling or its surroundings:
A complete new installation or rewire
Changing a consumer unit installation
A new final circuit (e.g. for lighting, heating, socket-outlets, a shower or cooker)
Extra-low voltage lighting (other than pre-assembled CE marked sets)
A solar photovoltaic power supply
Electric ceiling or floor heating
An electricity generator
Power or control wiring for a new central heating system

Within a kitchen or special location:
 Modifying a final circuit (e.g. adding a lighting point, fused connection unit or socket-outlet)

  

Within a special location:
 Installing telephone or extra-low voltage wiring and equipment for the purpose of communications, information  technology, signalling, control or similar purposes
Installing a prefabricated equipment set (e.g. for lighting) and associated flexible leads with integral plug and socket connections

Outdoors:
 Installing garden lighting or power (e.g. a supply to a garden shed, detached garage, other outbuilding, electric gate or pond pump)
Installing a socket-outlet
Installing a lighting point or other fixed current-using equipment (e.g. an air conditioning unit or radon fan)


Examples of Non-Notifiable Work:

Anywhere in a dwelling or its surroundings:
Installing pre-fabricated ‘modular’ wiring systems
Replacing a damaged cable for a single circuit, on a like-for-like basis
Replacing an accessory, such as a socket-outlet, control switch, ceiling rose or a fused connection unit
Providing mechanical protection to an existing fixed installation
Installing or upgrading protection equipment bonding
Fitting or replacing an item or current-using equipment (such as a cooker) to an existing suitable circuit		  


Within a garden shed, detached garage, or other outbuilding:
Modifying a final circuit (e.g. adding a lighting point, fused connection unit or socket-outlet

 

 

 

 

IMPORTANT NOTE
This information should not be used as an alternative to BS:7671 (IEE Wiring Regulations), which should always be used for all electrical installations