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Phil Allison wrote:
** Much the same situation exists in Australia, though it varies from
state to state.

Interestingly, in the USA it has been compulsory to fit safety devices
to AC outlets in bathrooms for decades.

In the UK until fairly recently, the *only* AC socket allowed in a
bathroom was a shaver socket fed via an isolating transformer. Also things
like light switches had either to be outside the room, or of an insulated
type like a pull cord one.

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*If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.

Dave Plowman London SW
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