Electrician not registered... who pays for 3rd party certificate?

Threaten to sue him or notify the police. Technically if he can prove he is a 'competent person' then he is entitled to carry out the work for you. However the work would still need certifying and registering with building control which if he is not registered as an electrician would cost a hefty fee. He shouldn't be doing the work if he can't certify it. Make sure you have his details and pass them onto the local building authority or trading standards. If he has insurance then it wouldn't cover your work. ALL electricians working in the home need to be registered with a competent persons scheme such as NICEIC or ELECSA. Being insured only is not enough! And yes he should cover all the costs of electrician no2

a none registered electrician is not a electrician so he should not have been carrying out electrical work in your house at all, as all circuits that are added to your consumer unit need certified if you were not aware of this then yes I wouldsay he should cover the costs but its doubtful he will,also it makes it harder for real electricians to gain work as its hard to match amature prices

All of the above are not entirely correct. It is not illegal nor does the elec 1 need to be registered on an approved scheme. However - and here is the important bit - certain electrical work carried out in the home is notifiable to your local authority, a full list of these can easily be found on the web. If Elec 1 is not registered on a Part P scheme, then he will need to inform building control who will charge him for the inspection of his work. And in order for them to sign the work off it must be compliant with BS7671 (IET Wiring Regs). In terms of who is responsible for the work - im afraid to say it is the homeowners responsibility to ensure all work carried out is compliant. Building control have the power to ask you to get the work ammended, or even ask you to have it removed completely. My advice to you would be to use an electrician who is registered on a Part P scheme to avoid any of this in the future. Thanks, Liam.

Did you know before getting the first electrician to carry out work that he was unregistered? Did you have a contract with electrician 1? This is a prime example of what happens when someone uses an unregistered electrician and unfortunately if you have no written contract, you have little legal standing. Chalk it up as a life lesson and use registered electricians from now on.