House Purchase - Electrical Certificate Requirement

[ALawson]

We are in the process of buying a house and the sellers solicitors have just sent through a quotation of works that need doing for the purpose of issusing an electrical certificate.

Having reviewed the work to be done none of it is particularly alarming, I am not to bother about the work being completed or getting a certificate as the electrics are safe.

As I understand it do I have the following options
1) Reply saying I am happy to pay for the work (the seller has then offered to pay for the electrical survey and certification;
2) State I'm not bothered and will purchase without the certification;
3) Ask them to pay for the work and the survey;

I suppose the work is only £342 + vat so I could just pay to get it done. The seller has just had the boiler serviced at a cost of £220 which I would probably had to have done anyway.

Any thoughts or confirmation of my assumptions would be great.

Cheers

Alex