On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 00:36:01 -0000, "Mike" wrote:


"Andy Hall" wrote in message

Because the law allows the HSE to approve a "class of persons" for the
purposes of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998.

It chooses to appoint CORGI, and only CORGI for this purpose.

If you look on the HSE web site, you will find that there have
periodically been objections to this, studies have been done, etc.
The outcome has been not to change this.

Therefore CORGI doesn't need to justify its fees within quite a margin
of reason.

But the IEE is the only body to charter electrical/electronic engineers and
the people needing the charter could probably afford far more yet aren't
ripped off like this.


Yes, but you don't *have* to be an IEE member in order to be an
electrical or electronics engineer. I don't know what proportion of
jobs in these fields require chartered engineer, but unless it has
changed dramatically in the last couple of years, it's not the
majority by a long way.

Whether that is the reason that IEE fees are low is hard to say, but
it's not really comparing apples with apples when you consider CORGI's
pseudo governmental role.

You do have to be a CORGI member in order to legally do gas fitting
professionally.



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