"Bert Coules" wrote in message
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Using one connector on the circuit cables and then single tails
to the socket turns the socket into an unfused spur.

Sorry to interrupt, but can I just make sure I have this clear?

As long as I don't exceed the permitted number of spurs, I can fit a
junction box into a ring circuit and take two separate single cables from
it
to two separate double-sockets, and this counts as two individual spurs?

Bert


Junction boxes are not really allowed on a final ring mains circuit. A ring
mains is rated, usually, at 32 Amps total running load, so a junction box
with terminals rated at this loading current are pretty big things. You are
allowed one fused spur from each socket on a final ring mains circuit if you
wish. To take a single cable to supply two individual double sockets that
have a total loading capability of 4 X 13 Amps = 52 Amps where the diversity
rule doesn't apply, isn't allowed.