{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-control-areas-exempted-fireplaces-order-1970/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1970/615",
  "legislation_title": "The Smoke Control Areas (Exempted Fireplaces) Order 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-control-areas-exempted-fireplaces-order-1970",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "Section 11 of the Clean Air Act 1956 empowers local authorities to declare the whole or any part of their district to be a smoke control area in which the emission of smoke is, generally, prohibited. This Order consolidates with amendments the Orders which exempt classes of fireplace from the provisions of that section, upon conditions as to proper operation. The amendments—\n(i) exclude from exemption certain fireplaces equipped with mechanical stokers, being fireplaces installed or adapted on or after the date of operation of this Order, but retain the exemption for such fireplaces installed or adapted before that date; and\n(ii) introduce a new exemption relating to fireplaces designed to burn coal and with a heating capacity above 150,000 British thermal units per hour.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/615/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:00:14.941947+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."
}