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"John Greenwood" writes:
Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your reply. I have decided to do the following:

Install a 13A socket behind the cooker hood which will be completely hidden.
The cooker hood will be plugged into this. The socket will be connected to a
visible FCU at worktop level. The FCU being on the kitchen ring circuit.

Does this sound as if it is in line with the regulations?

Yes, but you don't need the FCU.
If the plug can't be withdrawn without first dismantling or
removing the extractor fan, then a double pole 20A switch
will do (unfused as there is a fuse in the 13A plug).
If you can get to the plug for such maintenance, then you
don't even need the switch. You don't need to be able to get
to the plug or switch easily for everyday use -- they are
isolating switches for maintenance, and not required for
functional switching (hood presumably has its own switches
built-in for that).

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Andrew Gabriel