{"id":11226,"date":"2017-03-27T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=11226"},"modified":"2017-03-27T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T14:38:08","slug":"whose-responsibility-is-it-to-ensure-products-are-compliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/whose-responsibility-is-it-to-ensure-products-are-compliant\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose responsibility is it to ensure products are compliant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlt-article-teaser\">Electrical Contractors are at the front-end of legal accountability when confronted with the consequences of installing \u2018non-compliant\u2019 product. The IET Wiring Regulations states that \u201cEvery item of equipment shall be selected and erected so as to allow compliance with the regulations\u2026\u201d in the event of failure, or where it is subsequently found that \u2018non-compliant\u2019 has been installed, whether deliberately or by accident, then the installer will be liable either as a breach of contract or for failure to comply with the BS7671 Regulations.<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pJ2XoOTmAy0\" width=\"588\" height=\"330\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrical Contractors are at the front-end of legal accountability when confronted with the consequences of installing \u2018non-compliant\u2019 product. The IET Wiring Regulations states that \u201cEvery item of equipment shall be selected and erected so as to allow compliance with the regulations\u2026\u201d in the event of failure, or where it is subsequently found that \u2018non-compliant\u2019 has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[668],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-from-voltimum","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11227,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11226\/revisions\/11227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}