The Building Regulations do not restrict who may carry out electrical installation work. If you want to do the work yourself you should make sure that you know what you need to do before starting any work. There are a number of reputable guides that you can use to help you. These rules have been introduced to help reduce the number of deaths, injuries and fires caused by faulty installations. APHC, Benchmark, BESCA, Blue Flame, Certsure, Gas Safe Register, HETAS, NAPIT, OFTEC, and STROMA Installation or replacement of oil-fired boilers and storage tanks: APHC, Benchmark, BESCA, Blue Flame, Certsure, NAPIT, OFTEC, STROMA Installation or replacement of solid fuel burners:

additional power points or lighting points or any other alterations to existing electrical circuits (except around baths and showers) Some registered installers also carry out work under the Green Deal, are members of the TrustMark scheme or the Microgeneration Certification Scheme all of which give further consumer protection. In England only, an electrician registered with a third-party certification scheme (a ‘registered third-party certifier’).If the work has not been notified to a Building Control Body or carried out by a Competent Person Scheme registered installer the local authority will have no record that the work complies with Building Regulations. These records will be important when you come to sell your home as you may be asked to provide certificates of compliance with the Building Regulations. If an installer is not registered, then certain riskier jobs (identified as ‘notifiable’ in the Building Regulations) will need to be inspected, approved and certificated by: You will be given financial protection to cover the event of non-compliant work being found where the installation company has gone out of business. Use our partner directories from CIAT, FMB, RIBA, or RTPI to find an chartered architectural technologist, builder, architect or planning consultant to help with your project or development.

If you do not comply the work will not be legal. You could be prosecuted and could face unlimited fines.

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The Building Regulations are designed to ensure new buildings meet health, safety, welfare, convenience and sustainability standards. They relate to the specifics of how a building should be constructed unlike planning permission which is about the principle of whether development should go ahead or not. Benchmark, BESCA, Blue Flame, BSI, Certsure, NAPIT, OFTEC, STROMA Electrical installation work only in association with other work in dwellings (eg kitchen installations, boiler installations): Many jobs in the home need to be notified to and approved as being compliant with Building Regulations by a Building Control Body, either your Local Authority Building Control or a private sector Approved Inspector, unless carried out by installers registered with a Competent Person Scheme who can self certify that their work is compliant. installation of a new or replacement fuse box (or consumer unit) or any new electrical circuit connected to the fuse box, and alterations to electrical installations around a bath or shower