Electrical Safety Wales

To keep and obtain a licence a landlord must keep to certain rules and recommendations including electrical safety.

Electrical safety wales.

This means that all electrical installation work undertaken in a home in england or wales must by law comply with part p of the building regulations. Coronavirus covid 19 newport city council is following and implementing best practice regarding coronavirus as advised by the government and public health wales. In wales all landlords and agents of domestic tenancies including assured shorthold tenancies must be registered and or licensed with rent smart wales. For england and wales were amended to include part p which covers electrical safety in dwellings.

We use electricity for lots of menial tasks like turning on a light switch making toast and charging our phones but we also use it to power important things like medical equipment traffic control and street lights. The welsh government consider a disrepair scheme to fund electrical safety improvements and checks in vulnerable people s homes in wales. The electrical safety standards in the private rented sector england regulations 2020 requires that landlords maintain their property to the electrical safety standards and to be able to provide evidence of this. Electrical safety for private landlords and tenants.

This responsibility is continuous and comes into effect on the 1st july 2020 for all new and renewed tenancies. Electrical safety is incredibly important and we all have a part to play.