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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-control-areas-exempted-fireplaces-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2015/274",
  "legislation_title": "The Smoke Control Areas (Exempted Fireplaces) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-control-areas-exempted-fireplaces-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Clean Air\nMade 15th June 2015\nComing into operation 16th July 2015\nThe Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 17(7) of the Clean Air (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.\nThe Department is satisfied that the classes of fireplace set out in column 1 of the Schedule can, subject to the conditions set out in column 2 of the Schedule, be used for burning fuel other than authorised fuels without producing any smoke or a substantial quantity of smoke.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/158 (N.I. 4), to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Fuels declared by the Department of the Environment to be authorised fuels for the purposes of Article 2(2) of the Clean Air (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 are specified in S.R. 2013 No. 205, as amended by S.R. 2014 No. 249."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/274/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:01:01.301722+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."
}