2 Pin Plug Legal ??

JJ_Egan

As long as the equipment is double insulated i.e. does not require an earth then cut the plug off and fit a normal 3 pin BS1363 plug.

Plug as in AC adaptor where the plug is part of the unit .

You can supply items fitted with a 2 pin plug provided you also supply an adaptor to make it into a BS1363 3-pin plug. <<< IS what has been posted and what i can understand from the regulations .
From what i can understand a seller must make the buyer aware of a non standard plug .

jje

Owain_Moneysaver

JJ_Egan wrote: »

You can supply items fitted with a 2 pin plug provided you also supply an adaptor to make it into a BS1363 3-pin plug. <<< IS what has been posted and what i can understand from the regulations .
From what i can understand a seller must make the buyer aware of a non standard plug .

jje

The rregulations above require a conversion plug which complies with the requirements of paragraph (3) below and which encloses the fitted non–UK plug and can only be removed by the use of a tool. therefore the user would not be normally aware that there is a non-standard plug enclosed within the converter.

A particular problem appears with some cooking appliances which require a 16A fused supply. this is standard throughout Europe, but is more than can be supplied through a 13A socket.

SandieB_2

I know this is old, but I was interested to find it. I just bought a camera on Amazon which was fairly expensive (to me anyway) and when it arrived it had a quick start guide which was in French, and the plug on the battery charger was only 2 pin. I queried it with Amazon, who told me that I would have to buy an adapter, or return the item. They couldn't offer to replace it, as it came from a German distributer and obviously any others they had would be the same. I refused to pay for an adapter and they eventually agreed to supplying one, but the only way to do that was for them to put a credit o n my account and for me to "buy" it. Couldn't do that as they didn't actually have any on the site that they could supply! I've kept the item anyway as I remembered that I had an adapter at home (and Amazon were the cheapest to buy it anyway). But I quoted to them the fact that I thought it was illegal to sell electrical goods in the UK without an appropriate fitted plug ( I wasn't sure that was true though or just something that was lurking at the back of my mind). They said they would check it with the distributor.

When I looked at the reviews of this item on Amazon, the most recent ones over the last month or so all mentioned the same thing, so I assume they've changed their distributor or something.