On 28/02/2019 18:12, GB wrote:
On 28/02/2019 18:02, ARW wrote:

Of course the 18th edition has altered that for future installs (I
think you are correct about the OPs lights)

Is that on the basis that it's okay to get electrocuted by the lighting
circuit? Perhaps it's a more refined way to die.

Lighting circuits have generally been classed as safe without RCD
protection. For some reason domestic lighting circuits they are now
unsafe without RCD protection.

The RCD, when it first came into general use was for outside sockets and
using the lawnmower etc. Remember the RCD 13A plug in breakers before
RCDs were common place in CUs?


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Adam