The new amendment to Part P, which means a reduction in notifiable work, has just come into effect. Further changes allowing the use of a registered third party to certify such work (as an alternative to using a building control body) will follow later this year.
The reduction in notifiable work was recently the subject of a House of Lords ‘Motion to Regret’ from Baroness Jenny Tonge, the patron of the Electrical Safety Council (ESC) - the charity at the forefront of the fight to keep the regulation as the only protection for householders having electrical work undertaken in the home.

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