{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-prescribed-processes-and-substances-regulations-1991/schedule-1/part-1/crossheading-section-13-combustion-processes-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-prescribed-processes-and-substances-regulations-1991/schedule-1/part-1/crossheading-section-13-combustion-processes-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/472",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-protection-prescribed-processes-and-substances-regulations-1991",
  "path": "schedule/1/part/1/crossheading/section-13-combustion-processes-1",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": "PART A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(a) Burning any fuel in a combustion appliance with a net rated thermal input of 50 megawatts or more;\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) burning any of the following in an appliance with a net rated thermal input of 3 megawatts or more otherwise than as a process which is related to a Part B process—\n(i) waste oil;\n(ii) recovered oil;\n(iii) any fuel manufactured from, or comprising, any other waste.\nFor the purposes of paragraph (a) above, where—\n(i)two or more boilers or furnaces with an aggregate net rated thermal input of 50 megawatts or more (disregarding any boiler or furnace with a net rated thermal input of less than 3 megawatts); or\n(ii)two or more gas turbines or compression ignition engines with an aggregate net rated thermal input of 50 megawatts or more (disregarding any such turbine or engine with a net rated thermal input of less than 3 megawatts),\nare operated by the same person at the same location those boilers or furnaces or, as the case may be, those turbines or engines, shall be treated as a single combustion appliance with a net rated thermal input of 50 megawatts or more.\nNothing in this Part of this Section applies to the burning of any fuel in a boiler, furnace or other appliance with a net rated thermal input of less than 3 megawatts.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.W.) (6.4.2008) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3538), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. 22 (with regs. 69-72); and lapsed (S.) by virtue of repeal of power conferring provision 1990 c. 43, s. 2 (S.) (1.4.2015) by Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 (c. 24), s. 7(3), Sch. 3 (with s. 7(7)); S.S.I. 2015/74, art. 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 s. 1.3 substituted (8.1.1996) by The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/3247), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 2(a) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 s. 1.3 omitted (8.1.1996) by virtue of The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/3247), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 2(b) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 s. 1.3 inserted (8.1.1996) by The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances) (Amendment) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/3247), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 2(c) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 s. 1.3 inserted (1.12.1994) by The Environmental Protection (Prescribed Processes and Substances Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/1271), reg. 1, Sch. 3 para. 5 (with Sch. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/472/schedule/1/part/1/crossheading/section-13-combustion-processes-1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:49:53.509555+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."
}