{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-control-areas-authorised-fuels-amendment-no-2-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-control-areas-authorised-fuels-amendment-no-2-regulations-1992/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3148",
  "legislation_title": "The Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-control-areas-authorised-fuels-amendment-no-2-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Authorised fuels for the purposes of the Clean Air Act 1956",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 to the Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) Regulations 1991 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) After paragraph 4 there shall be inserted the following paragraph–\n“4A Black Diamond Gem briquettes, manufactured by Coal Products Limited at Immingham Briquetting Works, Immingham, Humberside, which–\n(a) comprise anthracite duff (as to 20 to 30 per cent of the total weight), petroleum coke (as to 40 to 45 per cent of the total weight), bituminous coal (as to 12 to 22 per cent of the total weight) and molasses and phosphoric acid binder (as to the remaining weight);\n(b) were manufactured from those constituents by a process involving roll-pressing and heat treatment at about 300°C;\n(c) are pillow-shaped briquettes marked with two parallel indented lines running latitudinally around the briquette and have an average weight of 160 grammes; and\n(d) have a sulphur content not exceeding 1.5 per cent of the total weight.”\n(3) After paragraph 8(c) there shall be inserted–\n“(d) Centrala Handlu Zagraniczengo Weglokoks, Poland and sold as “Glowbrite”.”\n(4) After paragraph 8 there shall be inserted the following paragraph–\n“8A Ecobrite briquettes, manufactured by Arigna Fuels Limited at Arigna, Carrick-on-Shannon, County Roscommon, which–\n(a) comprise anthracite fines (as to approximately 96 per cent of the total weight) and starch as binder (as to the remaining weight);\n(b) were manufactured from those constituents by a process involving roll-pressing and heat treatment at about 250°C;\n(c) are unmarked pillow shaped briquettes in two sizes having an average weight of 37 grammes for the smaller size and 48 grammes for the larger size; and\n(d) have a sulphur content not exceeding 1.5 per cent of the total weight”.\n(5) After paragraph 12 there shall be inserted the following paragraph–\n“12A Koala briquettes, manufactured by Allied Smokeless Fuels Limited at Foynes, County Limerick, which–\n(a) comprise anthracite fines and coal blends (as to approximately 70 per cent of the total weight), petroleum coke (as to approximately 17 per cent of the total weight) and molasses and phosphoric acid as binder (as to the remaining weight);\n(b) were manufactured from those constituents by a process involving roll-pressing and heat treatment at between 250°C and 280°C;\n(c) are pillow-shaped briquettes, with one indented line running latitudinally around the briquette, in two sizes having an average weight of 42 grammes for the smaller size and 85 grammes for the larger size; and\n(d) have a sulphur content not exceeding 1.5 per cent of the total weight”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 7.1.1993, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1282, amended by S.I. 1992/72."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3148/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:27:06.088119+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."
}