On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 2:16:12 AM UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
rings work fine without fuses in the
plug tops anyway

But would be rather pointless, as one of the reasons for the ring is to have circuit protection greater than that required for the appliances.

If you go back to 5A or 15A circuits to protect the appliances you might as well wire them as radials anyway.

Owain