I believe the answer is yes. But you will need to make a building regs application for the work to be inspected. At which point, your BCO may step in and say he/she wants you to use a Part P qualified electrician. The interpretation of how Part P is implemented seems to vary from council to council.

As Adrian says, there's nothing to stop you doing the work yourself, provided it satisfies your BCO. If you know a sparks who does have his or her Part P ticket, they can also sign off the work to the satisfaction of your BCO.
Here in Wales it costs around £140 to have the BCO out to inspect and sign off a DIY wiring job - but you need to let them know before you do your first fix in case they need to have a look at that before it all gets covered up.

Hi Tony,
I know this is a bit of a late reply, but I hope I can shed some light on the new Part P.
The way things are set out there are three "classes" of installer allowed for in the regs: The DIY installer, the qualified electrician who is not "Part P registered" and the qualified electrician who is. All of the above are allowed to carry out whatever domestic works they want, but the extent to which Building Control must verify the installation varies.

A qualified "Part P registered" sparky only has to register the work he has done with his Part P registration body (NICEIC Elecsa, Napit et al) and these bodies will directly inform the local Authority Building Control that it has been done. Same as a CORGI gas job, this is end of story - usually automatically approved.
Notifiable works being done by a qualified "non Part P registered" sparky or a DIY'er are subject to application to Building Control before starting the work (unless it is part of a larger job like an extension in which case it is included in the main application). The fee payable will depend on the value of works including the electrical work and no extra charge can be levied over and above the standard application fee to cover the cost of inspection and testing by building control .
Building control should be informed at the stage of completed 1st fix that they can come out to inspect, which they can do themselves, or they can pay a Part P registered electician to do for them or they can choose not to inspect at all - as they see fit. When the work is complete, if a qualified electrician did the work he should complete and supply to the customer a BS7671 Certificate for the work he has done, which the BCO will want to see. He, or any DIY installer should inform building control when the work is complete who in turn may choose to inspect and test before issuing their completion certificate. They will take any BS7671 cert issued against the job into consideration and can approve with or without further testing. They can either not test at all, test the work themselves, or instruct a Part P registered electrician of their choosing to do it for them. If the latter is done then this must be carried out by the same sparky who inspected the first fix).

Clear --- as mud?

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Best idea to get round it is to plug in you installation rather than use a spur. Otherwise you will need a Part P person to do the spur for you. The alarm wires are OK for us all to as they fall outside part P.

re: the last few posts: -

As an alarm installer, you wont be able to use the plug and socket trick for your systems as they wont comply with BS for intruder alarms, also its not really a get-around for part p either, as part p is for any fixed wiring, you will have great difficulty arguing your case over using a plug and socket for hard wired equipment that also uses fixed wiring.

secondly if you wanted to take it to the extremes, alarm cabling could be deemed to be under part p as it encompasses low voltage systems, low voltage being from 0-1000v (as set out in the IEE regs).

Lastly although adding a spur to an existing circuit may not be (depending on particualr install) notifiable under part p, you are wrong to say anyone can do it, you still have to be qualified to be able to certify the work and should still carry out testing and fill in a BS7671 certificate, otherwise you should notify building control and follow their requests.