DIY electricity

Part P Regulations in the UK

There are several electrical diy jobs that can be carried out in your house without local authority building control officer’s involvement.
This is classed as non-notifiable work and includes replacing sockets, fused connection units, switches and ceiling roses, and replacing damaged cable for a single circuit. Also adding new light fittings and light switches to existing circuits, and new socket outlets and fused spurs to existing ring and radial circuits.
Obviously anything other than these needs to be classed as notifiable and the local authority will need contacting and told exactly what you are going to do. Once you have had permission and then completed the work you must then ask the local authority to send an inspector to test the installation and issue a certificate, there will be a charge for this. If you have employed a suitably qualified electrician to do this work for you then they will sort out the certificate for you.