The Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1998

• Citation: S.I. 1998/3096
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 7th January 1999.

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 1A there shall be inserted–

(1B) Aimcor Pureheat briquettes, manufactured by Applied Industrial Materials UK Limited at Immingham, North East Lincolnshire, which–

(a) comprise anthracite (as to approximately 60 per cent of the total weight), petroleum coke (as to approximately 25 per cent of the total weight) and binder (as to the remaining weight);

(b) were manufactured from those constituents by a process involving roll pressing and heat treatment at about 250°C;

(c) are pillow-shaped briquettes with a single line indentation on one side and a double line indentation on the reverse side and have an average weight of 75 grammes; and

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

(1C) Ancit briquettes, manufactured by CPL Industries Limited at Immingham, North East Lincolnshire, which–

(a) comprise anthracite (as to approximately 60 per cent to 85 per cent of the total weight), petroleum coke (up to approximately 30 per cent of the total weight), bituminous coal (up to approximately 15 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 unmarked cushion-shaped briquettes with an average weight of 48 grammes; and

(d) have a sulphur content not exceeding 1.5 per cent of the total weight.

(b) in paragraph 4C , for “Blue Flame” there shall be substituted “Jewel”;

(c) after paragraph 8 there shall be inserted–

(8AA) Cosycoke (also marketed as Lionheart Crusader or Sunbrite Plus), manufactured by Monckton Coke & Chemical Company Limited at Royston, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire, which–

(a) comprise sized hard coke (as to approximately 45 to 65 per cent of the total weight) and sized petroleum coke (as to the remaining weight);

(b) were manufactured from those constituents by blending;

(c) are unmarked random shapes; and

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

(d) paragraph 16 shall be revoked.

Section 3 Revocation and savings

(1) Regulation 2(4) of the Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (Amendment) Regulations 1992 is hereby revoked.

(2) Notwithstanding the amendment by regulation 2(b) of paragraph 4C of Schedule 1 to the Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) Regulations 1991, Blue Flame briquettes manufactured before the coming into force of these Regulations which were an authorised fuel by virtue of that paragraph before that amendment shall continue to be an authorised fuel.

(3) Notwithstanding the revocation by regulation 2(d) of paragraph 16 of Schedule 1 to the Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) Regulations 1991, Pureheat ovoids manufactured before the coming into force of these Regulations which were an authorised fuel by virtue of that paragraph before that revocation shall continue to be an authorised fuel.