More likely is them doing the certificate on a computer or similar, and doing it at the same time as the part P notification.Electrician himself writes up the electrical installation cert
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Electrician goes home and sends notification to NICEIC
While some may still write out certificates by hand and such things are still valid - doing so is tedious and time consuming.
Not really.very important document if I ever need to sell the house in future
The usual deal when sale time arrives is that any document has long since been lost or destroyed, assuming it actually existed in the first place.
Then when the vendor is asked about electrical and all the other kinds of works that may have been done in the last decade or three, the answers are: don't know, lost, never had it, can't remember, no idea, caveat emptor. Just as it has been for centuries.