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I'm now wondering whether I wasted my money on the report. I don't understand "4.8 Manual operation of circuit-breakers and RCD(s) to prove disconnection (643.10)". If this isn't sufficient information to ask an electrician to quote to fix this, I have wasted my money.
That is the exact wording of one line on the list of things which should be inspected/checked as part of the report. On the standard paperwork there is a box next to this where the electrician would record the result of this check.
What is being checked here is that when the main switch and circuit breakers are manually switched off that they actually disconnect the power.
On rare occasions switches and circuit breakers can fail or the contacts inside them stick/weld themselves closed so that despite the operating lever being in the off position the power has not been switched off.
Failing this inspection would normally, in my opinion, result in a C2 'potentially dangerous' code being applied.