Issue an EV charge point record

A new charge point is a new circuit, and a new circuit is certified by an Electrical Installation Certificate. This record never replaces one and is never offered as an alternative to one. On a new install you record the number of the EIC that certifies the circuit, and this record accompanies it.

On a replacement unit, an alteration, a periodic check or a fault repair there is often no EIC in play, and the record stands alone. That is the case that earns it a document type of its own.

It carries what an EIC has no room for: the Section 722 open-PEN decision, the DNO and Part P notifications, the charge session test and the handover.

BS 7671 Section 722 is the part of the Wiring Regulations that covers electric vehicle charging, and the record is built around it. The open-PEN decision is the heart of it: on a PME supply where the vehicle might be charged outdoors, Regulation 722.411.4.1 requires you to deal with the risk of an open PEN conductor, and the builder asks you to record which route you took and why.

The rest of the checks follow the regulation numbers: no PEN conductor in the charge point final circuit (722.312.2.1), equipment to the BS EN 61851 series (722.511.101), suitability for external influences with an IP and impact rating (722.512.2), its own dedicated final circuit (722.533.101), an individual RCD of not more than 30 mA disconnecting all live conductors (722.531.2), and protection against DC fault current by a Type B RCD or an RDC-DD to BS IEC 62955 (722.531.3.101).

AFDDs are recorded and never required. A4 exempts EV charging circuits where the equipment is BS EN 61851 series with a BS EN IEC 62196-2 connector, but Regulation 421.1.7 still applies in HMOs, purpose-built student accommodation and care homes, so the record flags those premises rather than deciding for you.

Nothing in the record adjudicates. It records the route you chose, the devices you fitted and the values you measured. It never decides whether an arrangement complies, never picks the earthing route, and never selects an RCD type.

The printed record ends with a Section 722 checklist of ten rows, and you fill in none of them. Every row reads a field you already answered structurally: the open-PEN route, the equipment standard, the IP and impact rating, the RCD type, the isolation means. Asking the same question again as a yes or no would have been ten more taps, each one duplicating a field elsewhere on the form.

Deriving it removes the taps and makes the printed record more complete, because a row can no longer be left blank while the field behind it is filled. Each row names the regulation and then reports what you recorded. Where nothing was recorded it says so plainly, and no row ever says "compliant".

Alongside the usual readings, the record covers the IEC 61851 vehicle simulation states you proved with an EV adaptor (states A to E), and whether you proved a real charge session. State D, ventilation required, is almost always not applicable on a UK domestic install, so it is a three-way control and "does not apply" is an honest answer.

The handover section records what you actually showed the customer: the means of isolation, the six-monthly RCD test, the manuals and paperwork left on site, the labelling and notices fitted, and a free-text note. It is the part a customer remembers and the part that is hardest to evidence a year later.

This record is deliberately not on a renewal cycle. It is a point-in-time record of one visit, and the periodic check over an EV circuit belongs to the condition report that covers the fixed installation it sits on.

Chasing a customer to renew an EV record would invent a duty that does not exist, and you would be the one asked to justify it. If the customer needs a periodic check, that is an EICR.

You will need a TradeBooked account on the Pro or Autopilot plan, an electrician trade type, a booking for the property, and your competent-person scheme registration number. Any EV-specific qualification you hold is recorded but never required.