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Type of Installation
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Routine check
Sub-clause 3.5
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Maximum period
between inspections and
testing as necessary
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General Installation |
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| Domestic |
-- |
Change of occupancy/10 years |
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| Commercial |
1 year |
Change of occupancy/ 5 years |
1,2 |
| Educational establishments |
4 months |
5 years |
1,2 |
| Hospitals |
1 year |
5 years |
1,2 |
| Industrial |
1 year |
3 years |
1,2 |
| Residential accommodation |
at occupancy change /
1 year |
5 years |
1 |
| Offices |
1 year |
5 years |
1,2 |
| Shops |
1 year |
5 years |
1,2 |
| Laboratories |
1 year |
5 years |
1,2 |
Buildings open to the public |
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| Cinemas |
1 year |
1-3 years |
2,6,7 |
| Church installations |
1 year |
5 years |
2 |
Leisure complexes
(excluding swimming pools) |
1 year |
3 years |
1,2,6 |
| Places of public entertainment |
1 year |
3 years |
1,2,6 |
| Restaurants and hotels |
1 year |
5 years |
1,2,6 |
| Theatres |
1 year |
3 years |
2,6,7 |
| Public Houses |
1 year |
5 years |
1,2,6 |
| Village halls/Community centres |
1 year |
5 years |
1,2 |
Special installations |
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| Agricultural and horticultural |
1 year |
3 years |
1,2 |
| Caravans |
1 year |
3 years |
8 |
| Caravan Parks |
6 months |
1 year |
1,2,6 |
| Highway power supplies |
as convenient |
6 years |
-- |
| Marinas |
4 months |
1 year |
1,2 |
| Fish farms |
4 months |
1 year |
1,2 |
| Swimming pools |
4 months |
1 year |
1,2,6 |
| Emergency lighting |
Daily/monthly |
3 years |
2,3,4 |
| Fire alarms |
Daily/weekly/monthly |
1 year |
2,4,5 |
| Launderettes |
1 year |
1 year |
1,2,6 |
| Petrol filling stations |
1 year |
1 year |
1,2,6 |
| Construction site installations |
3 months |
3 months |
1,2 |
Reference Key
- Particular attention must be taken to comply with SI 1988 No 1057 – Electricity, Safety,
Quality and Continuity Regulations 2002 (as amended).
- SI 1989 No 635 – Electricity at Work Regulations 1989 (Regulation 4 & Memorandum).
- See BS 5266: Part 1: 2005 Code of practice for the emergency lighting of premises other than
cinemas and certain other specified premises used for entertainment.
- Other intervals are recommended for testing operation of batteries and generators.
- See BS 5839: Part 1: 2002 Code of practice for system design installation and servicing (Fire
detection and alarm systems for buildings).
- Local Authority Conditions of Licence.
- SI 1995 No 1129 (Clause 27) – Cinematograph (Safety) Regulations
- It is recommended that a caravan is inspected and tested annually it if is used frequently
(see 721.514.1 and Fig. 721 – Instructions for electricity supply)
*Reproduced courtesy of the Institute of Engineering and Technology
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