EICR Certs - NICEIC registration

[landlord]

Hi,
Private landlord here.
Like seemingly a lot of people. I thought electricians had to be registered with NICEIC or NAPIT in order to carry out an EICR test on a property. Except actually I've just learned they dont actually have to be. (thats correct right?).

However, if they then say the property is not up to standard and needs some bits of work doing on the electrics in order to get the cert, do they then have to be registered with one of the bodies in order to carry out the work?

If they don't have to be registered with any of these bodies, I have read something about being a "competent person". What does this mean, and is there any way I can check their status / check they have passed whatever qualifications they need to have done?
Thank

 

[Grant1987]

That is not how I read it.

Yes, he has been told that work needs done, but the first question from the OP was really about membership of a competent persons scheme being a requirement, as the contractor used by their agent did not seem to be registered. To me that is simple and perfectly valid point to ask, though the answer is complicated and the thread drifted off in to the likes of NAPIT versus BPG#4 guidance, etc.

Also another aspect of this is the OP apparently has not been given the EICR report, but simply told the work is needed. To me that is unacceptable (as well as raising a bit of suspicion when coupled with the apparently non-registered contractor). If your agent has commissioned an EICR you should get the full report as well as any recommendation/costings for corrective work.

Unless we see this EICR we have no idea. As I have mentioned in previous posts it could well be that the EICR is reasonable and all of the work proposed is required, but without seeing the report and maybe some photos of the points raised nobody can say one way or another.

Then why was the electrical contractor asked to carry out the report in the first place, the agent as the landlord has put it should know better and can’t now complain because remedial work has been advised surely the agent has a good understanding of how the system works my hunch is a landlord looking for a way out and hoping to get the property satisfactory without paying out £££

 

[timhoward]

And if you go for a NAPIT one, you'll be up against their Codebreakers book and its deviations from BPG4.

I hear you, but some of us think for ourselves! IMHO Code breakers was mainly about Napit trying to make money, not Napit trying to help their members.
Their own training team issues BPG4 to students and advises against reading CB!

 

[UNG]

I hear you, but some of us think for ourselves! IMHO Code breakers was mainly about Napit trying to make money, not Napit trying to help their members.
Their own training team issues BPG4 to students and advises against reading CB!

I was told by one of the NAPIT guys at Elex Coventry that codebreakers was published so that the coding of issues would be consistant across the industry, he didn't appreciate me laughing