If a light fitting is secured to the building, can you fit a 15 amp plug top and excluded it on a COC?
If a cable enters a conduit buried in the ground or secured to the side of a building, can it be excluded from the COC if it plugged into a socket outlet?
If a gate motor is fed from a plug top (230 VAC, not a transformer) in a bedroom in the house, fed through a wall using a piece of 1.5 mm cabtyre buried with no mechanical protection directly in the ground, can it be excluded from a COC.
At what point is a circuit fed from a plug top excluded from the COC ?
The way I understand it, if the cable is hanging loose and the appliance is not secured to the building it can be excluded, however as soon as you secure the appliance, cabling or wireway to the building it becomes a fixture.
If the COC is required for the sale of a property, the appliance is regarded as a fixture and cannot be excluded from the COC.
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