Date   : Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:10:35 +0100
From   : rs423@... (Mick Champion)
Subject: Leccy @ Acorn World '09

Greg Cook wrote:
> On Sun, 6/9/09, Jonathan Graham Harston <jgh@...> wrote:
>
>   
>>>> Legal: I wonder what the legal situation is if
>>>>         
>> you, an unlicenced and
>>  
>> wossa "unlicensed" electrician? is this some French thing? In the
>> UK anybody allowed do electrical work, in the same way that anybody
>> is allowed to mow a lawn or wash a car. You're just bound by
>> standard contractual competancy and liability laws.
>>     
>
> You also need the work inspected, since 2005, though at the time the
> news made the new regulations sound like a ban:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/4023907.stm
>   

It certainly does. "Work must be supervised". "No retrospective 
approval". Reads like a ban to me.



Mick.