{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018/schedule-21/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018/schedule-21/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2018/219",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/21/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Scope and interpretation: operating a large combustion plant",
  "text": "(1) This schedule applies to operating a large combustion plant.\n(2) “Large combustion plant” means a combustion plant where the total rated thermal input of which is equal to or greater than 50 MW, irrespective of the type of fuel used, but does not include—\n(a) plants in which the products of combustion are used for the direct heating, drying, or any other treatment of objects or materials,\n(b) post-combustion plants designed to purify the waste gases by combustion which are not operated as independent combustion plants,\n(c) facilities for the regeneration of catalytic cracking catalysts,\n(d) facilities for the conversion of hydrogen sulphide into sulphur,\n(e) reactors used in the chemical industry,\n(f) coke battery furnaces,\n(g) cowpers,\n(h) any technical apparatus used in the propulsion of a vehicle, ship or aircraft,\n(i) gas turbines and gas engines used on offshore platforms,\n(j) plants which use any solid or liquid waste as a fuel other than waste that is biomass.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 21 inserted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 12 (with sch. 23)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/219/schedule/21/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:11:56.403037+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."
}