It wasn't illegal either ; \Its legal under 16th
I don't do much TT stuff up here in London as we have proper lecky, not like you bunch of sheep lovers I would have thought the minimum csa required is also subject to Volt drop so distance to the rod(s) matters. We had to drop 3 rods in with a total of 15m of cable back to the Met recently. Wouldn't like to connect that lot up on a bit of 2.5. Of course if the jobs done correctly with Rcd's on everything, then the current flow to earth should be minimal, but i still would like to see a substantial bit of cable there : The Rcd's shouldn't be 100% trusted