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Commercial building (museum), 3 phase board
16A MCB, 3 x 2.5mm singles run in 20mm conduit, ending up at an FCU. All fine.
The singles are red, blue, and yellow/green.
Red is used for L1, Blue is used for N

My gut reaction is that this is just too confusing and needs sorting.
Tiny niggling doubt is that technically each wire is a permitted colour for it's use. I can't see anything in regs about consistency of old/new colours on the same circuit.
Any thoughts one way or the other? I'm leaning heavily on "this is not ok" regs or not.
 
In the old days (pre 2004) it was common to find single phase circuits wired in SWA with red as line, yellow as cpc and blue as neutral. The fact its singles in conduit makes no real difference. As has been said, sleeve the red as brown or the blue to black and all is good.
 

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