Paul,
I must say I agree with your comments about DIY work above.
I work in with a lot of PoCo Inspectors as part of my work and some of the stories that they've told me about DIY work that they have seen over the years, here would curl your hair!. [Linked Image]
But at the end of the day, how do you prove who actually did the work and when exactly it was done?.
This is one huge stumbling block here and it also means that a lot of people that install dangerously Non-compliant work get away with it Scot-free!.
Other side of the coin, those of us here, like me, that choose to work inside the law and have things like Registration and a Practising Licence, are usually the first people that are "in the gun", when the simplest of things go wrong, it's just not a level playing field in my eyes!.
That ELECSA Certified Person Scheme (read:gravy-train)sounds really expensive and IMHO it should be a lot cheaper than that if they want people to join it.
BTW, what does their assessment entail?.