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Regulation 2 Authorised fuels for the purposes of the Clean Air Act 1993I1

England, Wales and Scotland Not yet in force

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Schedule 1 to the Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) Regulations 1991f1 shall be amended as follows:

(a)

after paragraph 12AAf2 there shall be inserted—

“12AB

Island Lump and Island Nuts, manufactured by Unocal Refinery, California, United States of America, which—

(a)

comprise petroleum coke;

(b)

were manufactured from the petroleum coke by a process involving heat treatment and steam injection;

(c)

are unmarked random shapes and have an average weight of 80 grammes (Island Lump) or 30 grammes (Island Nuts); and

(d)

have a sulphur content not exceeding 2 per cent of the total weight.”;

(b)

for sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 15 there shall be substituted—

“(a)

comprise anthracite duff (as to approximately 65 per cent to 85 per cent of the total weight), petroleum coke (up to approximately 20 per cent of the total weight) and a molasses and phosphoric acid binder (as to the remaining weight);”;

(c)

after paragraph 18Af3 there shall be inserted—

“18B

Taybrite briquettes (otherwise known as Surefire briquettes), manufactured by Coal Products Limited at Immingham Briquetting Works, North East Lincolnshiref4, which—

(a)

comprise anthracite (as to approximately 60 per cent to 80 per cent of the total weight), petroleum coke (as to approximately 10 per cent to 30 per cent of the total weight) and a molasses and phosphoric acid binder (as to the remaining weight);

(b)

were manufactured from those constituents by a process involving roll pressing and heat treatment at about 300°C;

(c)

are pillow-shaped briquettes with a single indented line running longitudinally along each face, offset from its counterpart by 10 millimetres, and have an average weight of 75 grammes; and

(d)

have a sulphur content not exceeding 2 per cent of the total weight.”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Reg. 2 in force at 3.12.1997, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1991/1282, amended by S.I. 1992/72, 3148, 1993/2499, and 1996/1145.

f2

Paragraph 12AA was inserted by regulation 2(5) of S.I. 1993/2499.

f3

Paragraph 18A was inserted by regulation 2(9) of S.I. 1996/1145.

f4

Formerly Humberside: see S.I. 1995/600.