RCD mainswitch? What's the best way forward?

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Hi all first time posting on here, my friend is currently living in a flat in South Wales, with an Independant main fuse as you can hopefully see.. It uses a 63a RCD as a main switch
6a lights and smokes
16a storage heater
X2 32a cooker and sockets

To introduce heating (no gas) he wants to just swap the 16 to 32 and make it ring, adding electric heaters(6/32/32/32). I've put him in touch with an electrician so no rush on replies, but just interested in learning more myself as I'll be starting a course soon. Would this be viable? Would it meet regs? Would it be better to do a board change and change to rcbos?

Thanks in advance for any input 🙂

Edit: max load on the heaters 32a would be 7kw

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