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Electrical work in the homeCertain electrical work will require an application unless using a person registered under the Competent Person Scheme. Visit the LABC Competent Persons Register website for full details and to search for a competent person.
Electrical work does not need to be notified to building control bodies if the work consists of: - Replacing any fixed electrical equipment (for example, socket-outlets, control switches and ceiling roses) which does not include the provision of any new fixed cabling.
- Replacing the cable for a single circuit only, where damaged, for example, by fire, rodent or impact (note that jobs include new circuits back to the consumer unit, and extensions to circuits in kitchens and special locations and associated with special installations).
- Re-fixing or replacing the enclosures of existing installation components (note that replacement, repair and maintenance jobs are generally not notified even if carried out in a kitchen or special location or associated with a special installation).
- Providing mechanical protection to existing fixed installations (note that consumer unit replacements are, however, to be notified).
- Installing or upgrading main or supplementary equipotent bonding (note that in large bathrooms, the location containing a bath or shower is defined by the walls of the bathroom).
Work that is not in a kitchen or special location and does not involve a special installation and consists of: - Adding lighting points (light fittings and switches) to an existing circuit.
- Adding socket-outlets and fused spurs to an existing ring or radial circuit.
Conservatories and attached garages are not special locations. Work in them is therefore not to be notified unless it involves the installation of a new circuit, the extension of a circuit in a kitchen or special location or it is associated with a special installation. Detached garages and sheds are not special locations. (Work within them is to be notified but only if it involves new outdoor wiring).
Work not in a special location, on: - Telephone or extra-low voltage wiring and equipment for the purposes of communications, information technology, signalling, control and similar purposes.
- Prefabricated equipment sets and associated flexible leads with integral plug and socket connections.
Definitions of special locations and special installations for the purposes of Part P (Electrical Safety):
Special locations: - Locations containing a bath tub or shower basin.
- Swimming pools or paddling pools
- Hot air saunas
Special installations: - Electric floor or ceiling heating systems.
- Outdoor lighting or power installations.
- Solar photovoltaic (PV) power supply systems.
- Small scale generators such as microchip units.
- Extra-low voltage lighting installations, other than pre-assembled, CE-marked lighting sets.
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