This approved document deals with the following requirement from Part P of Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations Reasonable provision shall be made in the design and installation of electrical installations in order to protect persons operating, maintaining or altering the installations from fire or injury.
The requirements of this part apply only to electrical installations that are intended to operate at low or extra-low voltage and are:. The information should comprise items listed in BS and other appropriate information including:. Functionality requirements. Other parts of the Building Regulations and other legislation cover the functionality of electrically powered products such as fire alarm systems, fans and pumps.
NOTE: Approved Document M recommends that in new dwellings only, switches and socket-outlets for lighting and other equipment should be between mm and mm from finished floor level. Approved Document M does not recommend a height for new consumer units. However, one way of complying with Part M in new dwellings is to mount consumer units so that the switches are between mm and mm above floor level.
At this height, the consumer unit is out of reach of young children yet accessible to other people when standing or sitting. This means that in some cases the existing electrical installationwill need to be upgraded to meet current standards.
NOTE: If existing cables are adequate, it is not necessary to replace them, even if they use old colour codes. Therefore, when extending or altering an electrical installation , only the new work must meet current standards. The document's purpose, as with all other approved documents, was to provide practical guidance for some of the more common building situations.
Part P of Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations England has been amended in an attempt to provide greater clarity of the requirement and to make enforcement more proportionate to the risk. This came into effect on 6 April These Regulations have now been superseded by the release of a new version of Approved Document P, which came into effect on 6 April for use in England and can be downloaded from the Government website.
For work which has begun before this date or work, subject to a building notice, which means the full planning application was submitted before 6 April , the edition will continue to apply. Guidance on competent person schemes can be found on the Government website. In May the Government announced that it was introducing a new Part to the Building Regulations, Part P, which would bring domestic electrical installation work in England and Wales under the legal framework of the Building Regulations.
It will, for the first time, place a legal requirement for safety upon electrical installation work in dwellings, although the sector is highly regarded for its high levels of conformity with its chief standard, BS It was announced that Part P would only be introduced in law when self-certification schemes were in place to ensure competency of the work undertaken. Such schemes have been in place for many years, Part P of the Building Regulations became a legal requirement on 1 January Is this page useful?
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