{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-control-areas-authorised-fuels-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-control-areas-authorised-fuels-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2658",
  "legislation_title": "The Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-control-areas-authorised-fuels-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Authorised fuels for the purposes of the Clean Air Act 1993",
  "text": "Schedule 1 to the Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) Regulations 1991 shall be amended as follows:\n(a) after paragraph 12AA there shall be inserted—\n“12AB Island Lump and Island Nuts, manufactured by Unocal Refinery, California, United States of America, which—\n(a) comprise petroleum coke;\n(b) were manufactured from the petroleum coke by a process involving heat treatment and steam injection;\n(c) are unmarked random shapes and have an average weight of 80 grammes (Island Lump) or 30 grammes (Island Nuts); and\n(d) have a sulphur content not exceeding 2 per cent of the total weight.”;\n(b) for sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 15 there shall be substituted—\n“(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);”;\n(c) after paragraph 18A there shall be inserted—\n“18B Taybrite briquettes (otherwise known as Surefire briquettes), manufactured by Coal Products Limited at Immingham Briquetting Works, North East Lincolnshire, which—\n(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);\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 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\n(d) have a sulphur content not exceeding 2 per cent of the total weight.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 3.12.1997, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1282, amended by S.I. 1992/72, 3148, 1993/2499, and 1996/1145."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 12AA was inserted by regulation 2(5) of S.I. 1993/2499."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 18A was inserted by regulation 2(9) of S.I. 1996/1145."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Formerly Humberside: see S.I. 1995/600."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2658",
      "affecting_title": "The Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2658/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:43:21.815990+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."
}