Business change
When should a business change make you look at the electrical papers?
Use the commercial EICR service for quotations and inspection enquiries. This page is the narrower question: which changes are a reason to read the report you have, and which are not a new legal clock.
Reviewed 6 October 2026 by Michael (Technical Supervisor) and George Opsenica (Director, Codeex Maintenance Ltd). General guidance, not a reading of your own report and not legal advice.
What each reviewer checked
- Michael: Technical review of the exact current technical sentences on this page. It includes the technical reassessment wording. This is not legal review..
- George Opsenica: Owner presentation of this current page. Source-based regulatory editorial review of the exact current fresh regulatory sentences. This is not a technical electrical review and it is not legal advice..
There is no automatic deadline on this page
A change in a business does not, by itself, create a statutory EICR deadline.
A workplace duty under the electricity at work regime is not the private-rented five-year interval.
A landlord, tenant, insurer or facilities request for papers or a planned inspection is a business request. It is not, by itself, a statutory EICR deadline.
| Reason | What it is |
|---|---|
| The installation, occupation or equipment has changed | A reason to read the report and the scope. Not a new statutory deadline. |
| A customer, insurer or facilities request | A request for papers or a planned inspection. Not, by itself, a legal clock. |
| A workplace duty | Separate from the private-rented five-year interval. This page does not restate that interval as an office rule. |
When the papers are worth opening
A change is a reason to look at the electrical papers you already hold when the installation, the occupation or the equipment has changed.
That includes a new occupier, a fit-out, new circuits or equipment, a change of use, a landlord and tenant handover, or a facilities request for a planned inspection.
New occupation
The incoming occupier may need the report that describes the installation they are taking.
Fit-out or new circuits
New work is certificated as new work. It is not the same document as the condition report.
Change of use
The way the space is used can change what a later inspection needs to include.
Handover
Landlord and tenant papers are a reason to see which report covers which part.
This is not the price page
Prices and the reason a commercial job is quoted manually belong on the commercial service and the commercial quotation guide, not here.
The commercial service
Start with commercial EICR certificates. How a commercial price is quoted is the commercial quotation guide.
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