Schedule 1 I1F1
England, Wales and Scotland
Original text. Later amendments are not shown.
Exempted Furnaces
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Class of furnace | Purpose |
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1. Mobile or transportable furnaces | (a) Providing a temporary source of heat or power during any building operation or work of engineering construction (within the meaning of section 176 of the Factories Act 1961); |
| (b) providing a temporary source of heat or power for investigation or research; |
| (c) providing heat or power for the purposes of agriculture (within the meaning of section 109(3) of the Agriculture Act 1947). |
2. Furnaces, other than furnaces designed to burn solid matter at a rate of one ton an hour or more, which fall within any of the following descriptions and in which the matter being heated does not contribute to the emission of grit and dust:— |
(a) furnaces burning liquid matter, gas, or liquid matter and gas; |
(b) hand-fired sectional furnaces designed to burn solid matter at a rate of not more than 25 pounds an hour for each square foot of grate surface; |
(c) magazine type gravity-fed furnaces designed to burn solid matter at a rate of not more than 25 pounds an hour for each square foot of grate surface; | Any purpose except the incineration of refuse |
(d) furnaces fitted with an under-feed stoker designed to burn solid matter at a rate of not more than 25 pounds an hour for each square foot of the plan area of the combustion chamber; |
(e) furnaces fitted with a chain grate stoker designed to burn solid matter at a rate of not more than 25 pounds an hour for each square foot of grate surface; |
(f) furnaces fitted with a coking stoker designed to burn solid matter at a rate of not more than 25 pounds an hour for each square foot of the area covered by the fire bars excluding the solid coking plate. |