In article ,
derek writes:

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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:40:15 +0100, PoP
wrote:

About a new requirement from next April that all domestic electricaL
work will have to be certified by a qualified electrician.

That isn't what's proposed. It's difficult to work out what is
proposed, but it will most likely be based on being a member of
NICEIC, and nothing to do with being a qualified electrician.
The government was estimating about 40% of electricians currently
belong to electrical trade bodies, but the trade itself seems to
put the figure much lower, at little more than 25%.

I was wondering where the impetus for all these new regs came from,

The technical justification was non-existant (well, it did
exist, but it was just plain wrong, and so very obviously so).
The motivation is not a technical or safety one, although
that's what the press releases from the Office of the Deputy
Prime Minister would try and have you believe.

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Andrew Gabriel