{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/certification-of-fuels-and-fireplaces-charges-england-regulations-2025/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/certification-of-fuels-and-fireplaces-charges-england-regulations-2025/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/287",
  "legislation_title": "The Certification of Fuels and Fireplaces (Charges) (England) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/certification-of-fuels-and-fireplaces-charges-england-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part 4",
  "text": "In this Part—\n“approved solid fuel” means a solid fuel in respect of which a solid fuel assessment body has issued a solid fuel approval notice;\n“list of approved fuels” means the list of approved fuels published by the Secretary of State under section 19D(4) of the 1993 Act (interpretation of “approved fuel” for the purposes of section 19B of that Act (acquisition and sale of controlled solid fuel in England));\n“new solid fuel” means a solid fuel comprising materials or proportions of materials that are different from those of—\n(a) an approved solid fuel; or\n(b) any other solid fuel included in the list of approved fuels from time to time;\n“new solid fuel application” means a solid fuel application made in respect of a new solid fuel;\n“new solid fuel brand application” means a solid fuel application made in respect of the first brand under which a new solid fuel is intended to be marketed;\n“other supplier” means a solid fuel supplier that is not a solid fuel manufacturer;\n“recertification application” means a solid fuel application to extend the period during which a solid fuel approval notice has effect;\n“solid fuel application” means an application made by a solid fuel manufacturer or other supplier to a solid fuel assessment body for solid fuel assessment;\n“solid fuel approval notice” means a notice recording the fact that a solid fuel is suitable for inclusion in the list of approved fuels;\n“solid fuel assessment” means an assessment of a solid fuel’s suitability for inclusion in the list of approved fuels;\n“solid fuel assessment body” means an organisation appointed by the Secretary of State to provide solid fuel assessments; and\n“solid fuel rebrand application” means a solid fuel application, other than a new solid fuel brand application, made in respect of a brand under which an approved solid fuel is to be marketed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The list of approved fuels may be viewed online at https://smokecontrol.defra.gov.uk/fuels-php/england/. A hard copy of the list may be obtained by contacting the Head of Domestic Combustion Policy, Air Quality and Industrial Emissions, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Seacole Building, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Sections 19A to 19D were inserted by the Environment Act 2021 (c. 30), Schedule 12, paragraphs 2 and 4. The inserted sections apply in relation to England only."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The current solid fuel assessment body is HETAS Limited."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/287/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:19:13.501988+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}