The only legally enforcable requirements under the Building Regs. are already so short that there's not much to abridge:
PART P ELECTRICAL SAFETY
Design, installation, inspection and testing
P1 Reasonable provision shall be made in the design, installation, inspection and testing of electrical installations in order to protect persons from fire or injury.
Provision of information
P2 Sufficient information shall be provided so that persons wishing to operate, maintain or alter an electrical installation can do so with reasonable safety
The requirements of this Part apply only to electrical installations that are intended to operate at low or extra-low voltage and are -
(a) in a dwelling;
(b) in the common parts of a building serving one or more dwellings, but excluding power supplies to lifts;
(c) in a building that receives its electricity from a source located within or shared with a dwelling; or
(d) in a garden or in or on land associated with a building where the electricity is from a source located within or shared with a dwelling."
That's it!
The actual Statutory Instrument which added Part P is the usual wordy bureaucratic prose, but it does have the list of works which are exempt. Scroll down to Schedule 2B:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2004/20043210.htm The "Approved Document" for Part P can be downloaded from here:
http://www.odpm.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1130906 There is
nothing in this document which is actually the law in itself, but it does include a summary of the works exempt from notification on page 11.
[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 11-13-2005).]
