This Part applies to a registered provider that grants, or intends to grant, a specified tenancy of social housing (within the meaning of Part 2 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008under which electrical equipment is provided, or would be provided if the tenancy were granted.
In this Part—
"check" means, in relation to an item of electrical equipment, such visual inspection or testing (or both) of that equipment as the qualified person conducting the check considers necessary to determine whether or not that equipment is safe for continued use;
"ISIT record" means a record under regulation 3C(1) or (4);
"qualified person" means a person competent to undertake the checking required under regulation 3B(1) and any remedial work required under regulation 3C(2)(b);
"safe for continued use" means, in relation to an item of electrical equipment, that—it is of such construction as to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, risk of death, personal injury or other harm from electric shock, electric burn, electrical explosion or arcing, or from fire or explosion initiated by electrical energy;it is maintained so as to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, such risk; andit is not provided for use in applications for which it is unsuitable.