EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations consolidate the Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (S.R. 2003 No.450) and the Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007 No.17), which declared fuels to be authorised fuels for the purposes of Article 2(2) of the Clean Air (Northern Ireland) Order 1981. They also revoke those Regulations. Nine additional fuels are authorised (Schedule, paragraphs 4, 9, 18, 27, 32, 34, 43, 45 and 49).
They contain a savings provision to provide that stocks of authorised fuels manufactured before these Regulations came into operation remain as authorised fuels (regulation 3).