Is the gas oven electric supply safe?

-I'm about to move house, and at the present time have an electric oven. The new house however is gas. Although we haven't yet got access to the property we can see (through the window) that the gas oven has an electric supply (for ignition etc), my concern is that this is plugged in to a normal 3 pin socket on the wall (the double type that you plug your kettle and toaster into).



Is this safe? All the appliances in the current house have the plugs further down the wall with the on off switch at the work top level in red. And the oven has a fully wired isolator switch - thingy.



Should the electric for the gas oven also be wired in this manner or is it ok to have it plugged in like a small appliance. Just need to check so I can get the housing people to sort it out before we move in.



ThanksYes, the gas oven only requires a small amount of power for ignition, clock etc and it is perfectly acceptable to run that off a normal socket. The difference is that your present electric oven requires far more power than that, and has to specially provided for.
Of course it is okay to have it plugged in like that. The only thing the electricity is power is the ignitors that spark to light the flame, and any electronics (clock, timer, lights, etc).
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The spark device is only a low capacity unit so it is OK on an ordinary plug and socket
yes, of course it will be more safe.
The electricity supply for the gas ignition is very low current and is perfectly safe taken from a 13A wall socket.

When you looked through the window did you see a Cooker Control switch? This will be a single large switch, usually sharing a panel with a 13A socket. Your existing electric cooker will have one.



If your new house has one of these then you can be fairly sure that there will be a suitable connection point for your cooker. It won't be visible through a window because it will be on the wall behind the existing gas cooker.



The owners probably didn't use the cooker connector for the ignition system of their gas cooker because it may have been supplied with a plug attached. It would be easier to just plug it in rather than taking the plug off and wiring it to a connector block.