{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sulphur-content-of-solid-fuel-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sulphur-content-of-solid-fuel-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1998/329",
  "legislation_title": "The Sulphur Content of Solid Fuel Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sulphur-content-of-solid-fuel-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Sulphur content of solid fuel",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person shall not sell by retail or deliver in the course of retail sale any solid fuel having a total sulphur content greater than 2 per cent. Determined on a dry basis in accordance with British Standard BS 1016-106.4.2 Methods for analysis and testing of coal and coke. Ultimate analysis of coal and coke. Determination of total sulfur content. High temperature combustion method .\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not prohibit—\n(a) the delivery of any such fuel to premises other than a private dwelling; or\n(b) the possession of any such fuel for the purposes of—\n(i) its use in the manufacture of solid fuel; or\n(ii) its export from Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(1) substituted (18.11.2022) by The Sulphur Content of Solid Fuel (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 (S.R. 2022/275), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 15.10.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/329/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:49.682536+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."
}