I think that requiring people to retrofit RCDs or GFCIs (depending where you live) to existing circuits would be a bureacratic nightmare,
As far as the U.K. is concerned, Tony's already burdening us with more than enough extra bureaucracy as it is, so we certainly don't need any more!
Besides, such a retrofit requirement would require absolutely draconian powers to enforce it. There are no official records of what electrical gear is present in houses.
The only way it could be enforced is to give some jumped-up local government bureaucrat powers to demand entry to inspect your wiring, or to require everybody to produce some sort of inspection certificate by a certain date.
We're becoming a police-state quite quickly enough already, without going down that road.
People here in the UK tend to take city sewers for granted, and dump anything and everything down them, upto and including rubble, hazardous chemicals etc.
Yep. It's not uncommon to hear pleas such as "Please do not dump old engine oil into the sewers."
