The Smoke Control Areas (Exempted Fireplaces) Order 1990

• Citation: S.I. 1990/345
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Title, commencement and extent

(1) This Order may be cited as the Smoke Control Areas (Exempted Fireplaces) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 26th March 1990.

(2) This Order shall extend to England and Wales.

Section 2 Classes of fireplace exempted from section 11 of the Clean Air Act 1956

The classes of fireplace described in the Schedule shall, upon the conditions there specified, be exempted from the provisions of section 11 of the Clean Air Act 1956 (which empowers a local authority to declare the whole or any part of its district to be a smoke control area).

Section 1

The fireplaces shall be installed, maintained and operated so as to minimise the emission of smoke at all times, and in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions bearing the reference “HAAT/2/ CAA /10/89”.

Section 1

The fireplace shall be installed, maintained and operated so as to minimise the emission of smoke at all times, and in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions dated September 1989 and which–

(a) in the case of the installation instructions bear the reference “ No. 44359”; and

(b) in the case of the user instructions bear the reference “No. 44358”.

Section 2

No fuel shall be used other than the following fuels used in the mixtures by volume recommended in Appendix A of the manufacturer’s instructions: paper, cardboard, corrugated paper, office or domestic waste, wood, polythene sheet or foam, polypropylene, nylon, polyethylene, rubber foam backed carpet, polystyrene, polyurethane and glass fibre reinforced plastics.

Section 2

No fuel shall be used other than the washed coals recommended in the manufacturer’s user instructions.