It will be installed and tested to the latest regs. If you accept thet BS7671 isn't a legal requirement on it's own, but is accepted as the required standard for the building regulations part P,
then if the Building Regs don't require it for a particular building then surely BS7671 doesn't apply. If you look at the Building Regs
The Building Regulations 2010
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2010 No. 2214
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SCHEDULE 2
· CLASS 3
Exemptions from building regulations
The building regulations part p states that buildings in
Class 2 (Buildings not frequented by people) and
Class 3 (Agricultural buildings) are exempt from part p.
Buildings not frequented by people
1. Subject to paragraph 2, a detached building—
(a)into which people do not normally go; or
2. A building used, subject to paragraph 3, for agriculture, or a building principally for the keeping of animals, provided in each case that—
(a)no part of the building is used as a dwelling;
A stable is for the housing of animals, it is not a dwelling.
Also definition of livestock and agriculture
The Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968 (1968 Ch 34)
The definition of livestock given in Section 8(1) of the Act applies to animals being kept for the production of food, wool, skin or fur on agricultural land.
Agricultural land is defined in Section 8(1) as land used for the purpose of an agricultural trade or business
Also if you read the Building Regulations Part P, Section 2, 'Scope' 2.2
says what buildings are exempt.
From IET:
Q3: To what types of electrical work does Part P apply?
- In or attached to a dwelling
- In the common parts of buildings serving one or more dwellings, but excluding power supplies to lifts
- In a building that receives its electricity from a source located within or shared with a dwelling, and
- In a garden or in or on land associate with a building where the electricity supply is from a source located within or shared with a dwelling
The term
dwelling includes houses, maisonettes and flats. It also applies to electrical installations in business premises that share an electricity supply with dwellings, such as shops and public houses with a flat above.
The
common parts of buildings includes access areas in blocks of flats such as hallways and shared amenities in blocks of flats such as laundries and gymnasiums.
Part P applies to electrical installations located in outbuildings such as detached garages, sheds and greenhouses.
Part P applies to parts of electrical installations located on land around dwellings such as garden lighting.
I rest my case.
