The Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/2658
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 3rd December 1997.

Section 2 Authorised fuels for the purposes of the Clean Air Act 1993

Schedule 1 to the Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) Regulations 1991 shall be amended as follows:

(a) after paragraph 12AA there shall be inserted—

(12AB) Island Lump and Island Nuts, manufactured by Unocal Refinery, California, United States of America, which—

(a) comprise petroleum coke;

(b) were manufactured from the petroleum coke by a process involving heat treatment and steam injection;

(c) are unmarked random shapes and have an average weight of 80 grammes (Island Lump) or 30 grammes (Island Nuts); and

(d) have a sulphur content not exceeding 2 per cent of the total weight.

(b) for sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 15 there shall be substituted—

(a) comprise anthracite duff (as to approximately 65 per cent to 85 per cent of the total weight), petroleum coke (up to approximately 20 per cent of the total weight) and a molasses and phosphoric acid binder (as to the remaining weight);

(c) after paragraph 18A there shall be inserted—

(18B) Taybrite briquettes (otherwise known as Surefire briquettes), manufactured by Coal Products Limited at Immingham Briquetting Works, North East Lincolnshire , which—

(a) comprise anthracite (as to approximately 60 per cent to 80 per cent of the total weight), petroleum coke (as to approximately 10 per cent to 30 per cent of the total weight) and a molasses and phosphoric acid binder (as to the remaining weight);

(b) were manufactured from those constituents by a process involving roll pressing and heat treatment at about 300°C;

(c) are pillow-shaped briquettes with a single indented line running longitudinally along each face, offset from its counterpart by 10 millimetres, and have an average weight of 75 grammes; and

(d) have a sulphur content not exceeding 2 per cent of the total weight.

Section 3 Saving

Notwithstanding the amendment made by regulation 2(b) above, Phurnacite briquettes manufactured before the coming into force of these Regulations which were an authorised fuel by virtue of paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) Regulations 1991 before the amendment of that paragraph by regulation 2(b), shall continue to be an authorised fuel.