{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-control-areas-exempted-fireplaces-order-1997/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-control-areas-exempted-fireplaces-order-1997/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/3009",
  "legislation_title": "The Smoke Control Areas (Exempted Fireplaces) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/smoke-control-areas-exempted-fireplaces-order-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "CLEAN AIR\nMade 17th December 1997\nLaid before Parliament 19th December 1997\nComing into force 9th January 1998\nThe Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland, as respects Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 21 of the Clean Air Act 1993 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, being satisfied that the classes of fireplace exempted by this Order can be used for burning fuel other than authorised fuels without producing any smoke or a substantial quantity of smoke, hereby make the following Order:",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Order revoked (S.) (29.6.2009) by The Smoke Control Areas (Exempt Fireplaces) (Scotland) Order 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/214), arts. 1(1), 3, sch. 2; and revoked (E.) (6.4.2015) by The Smoke Control Areas (Exempted Fireplaces) (England) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/307), art. 1(c), Sch. 2 Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 11."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3009/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:19.660221+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."
}