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Generally cables installed above a plaster board ceiling with a minimum 30 minutes fire protection will not require metallic fixings.
If it where the case we would need to be doing now on our works such as new builds where cables are installed above a ceiling to landing areas and halls just above your front doorway.
I recall watching one of those IET videos from an Elex show, where that Darren Staniforth (NIC/Elecsa) was ridiculing a colleague from Napit, as Napit interpretation of the above, is that plasterboard ceiling would not meet the proposed new reg change.
Interesting how people interpret things differently, isn't it!
My Mrs Miggins, is not going to be happy me taking her ceiling down or most of her floor, to clip a cable with suitable fixings.