There's to Much kit out there for them to be able to effectively enforce there regs , so everyone doing pretty much what they want these days , unless someone knows who to complain to, no one cares man , ico don't know Jack what's going on in the grand scheme of things....imo
I would scrap it, time to spend a little on an upgrade , use existing wiring and get something up to date in, will be worth spending the money
Although 9651 is a good panel, personally would go for the g2-12 there are many others
Depends on the panel, some of the old ones do this due to no servicing and life span of the nvm which has or may have lost its programming during the powercycle
Is it a 9800 or 9600 or newer?
Doc probably answer better
If system is setup so zones can be omitted then yes , entering user code and looking through menu for omit , it may come up with no entries, if so then you must call an engineer
I see some couriers have notices saying cctv and audio being recorded for security reasons, all within there area of course , not sure if they do record though