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SECTION 3 (Requirement that new furnaces shall be so far as practicable
smokeless) requires all new furnaces (including domestic
installations with a maximum heating capacity of 55,000 or more B.Th.U's
per hour) to be capable of being operated continuously without emitting
smoke when burning fuel of a type for which they were designed. The
installation of a new furnace must be notified to the local authority.
Plans and specifications for a new furnace may be submitted to the local
authority for approval.
This section does not apply to movable furnaces which are not "for
the time being fixed to or installed on any land", e.g. road-making
equipment and locomotive furnaces,
SECTION 4 (Density meters, 8cc ) empowers the Minister to make Regulations
imposing in specified cases requirements as to the installation
of apparatus to indicate and or record smoke density, or to facilitate
the observation of smoke; the adaptation of chimneys; the use and
maintenance of the apparatus, and making records available to the local
authority.
SECTION 5 (Requirement that grit and dust from furnaces shall be
minimised) enacts that failure to use any practicable means there may be
for minimising the emission of grit and dust from any furnace used to
burn solid fuel or solid waste constitutes an offence.
SECTION 6 (Requirement that new furnaces shall be fitted with plant
to arrest grit and dust) provides that all new furnaces burning
pulverized fuel or burning one ton an hour or more of solid fuel in any
other form must have grit arresting plant installed in accordance with
plans and specifications submitted to and approved by the local
authority There is a right of appeal to the Minister against a
Council's refusal to approve plans.
SECTION 7 (Measurement of grit and dust emitted from furnaces)
empowers the Minister to make regulations covering the making and
recording of measurements of grit and dust emission, including the
adaptation of the chimney, providing and maintaining the necessary
apparatus, and informing the local authority of the results. Different
regulations may be made for different types of furnaces. These
regulations will apply to furnaces burning pulverized fuel and those
burning more than one ton of fuel an hour, provided that the local
authority serves notice in writing to that effect.
SECTION 8 (Information about furnaces and fuel consumed) enables a
local authority, for the purpose of performing their functions under
Sections 7 and 8, to demand from an occupier such information as they
may reasonably require for that purpose. Failure to give such information
is an offence,
SECTION 9 (Grit and dust from outdoor furnaces, etc,) applies the
provisions of Sections 5, 6, 7 and 8 to the furnace of any boiler or
industrial plant attached to a building or for the time being fixed to
or installed on any land.
SECTION 10 (Height of chimneys) this section because of the existing
planning and Building Act powers of the London County Council does not
apply to London.
SECTION 11 (Smoke control areas) empowers a local authority to make
an order declaring the whole or any part of its district "a smoke
control area". Subject to any stated exemptions and limitations, the