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The Minister's provisional clearance of this area was received on January
4th, 1960, and it is hoped that the Council will be in a position to make the
Order in October, 1960, and that the Order will become operative on the 1st
October, 1961.
In exercise of his powers under subsection (4) of this section, the
Minister of Housing and Local Government made the Smoke Control Areas (Exempted
Fireplaces) Order, 1959. This order, which came into operation on 17th July,
1959 exempts from the provisions of section 11 the undermentioned classes
of fireplaces on the conditions indicated:-
(1)
Class of Fireplace
Fireplaces, other than fireplaces
fired by pulverised fuel, constructed
on or after 31st day of December,
1956, and equipped with mechanical
stokers, or adapted on or after that
date for use with such stokers
The fireplace known as the Solid
Fuel Ductair Unit, manufactured by
Radiation Limited
The fireplace known as the Fulgora
Slow Combustion Stove, manufactured
by Fulgora Stoves Limited.
(2)
Conditions
The fireplaces shall be so installed,
maintained and operated as to minimise
the emission of smoke. No fuel shall
be used other than that for which the
mechanical stoker was designed
The fireplace shall be so installed,
maintained and operated as to minimise
the emission of smoke, and in any
case in accordance with the manufacturers'
instructions.
The fireplace shall be so installed,
maintained and operated as to minimise
the emission of smoke, and in any
case in accordance with the manufacturers'
instructions. No fuel
shall be used other than wood waste
in clean condition
The following Circular No. 44/59 dated 16th July, 1959 accompanied the
Order:-
"CLEAN AIR ACT, 1956
I. Smoke Control Areas (Exempted Fireplaces)
Order, 1959
1. I am directed by the Minister of Housing and Local Government to draw
the attention of the council to the enclosed copy of an order made under
section 11(4) of the Clean Air Act, 1956 which he has laid before Parliament
Exemption of Mechanical Stokers installed on or after 31st December, 1956
2 The order exempts from the provisions of section 11 of the Act (which
relate to smoke control areas) furnaces installed on or after 31st December,
1956 which are equipped with mechanical stokers and do not burn pulverised fuel
3. The exemption is conditional on installation, maintenance and
operation to minimise the emission of smoke and on the use of fuels for which
the mechanical stoker was designed. Generally, such fuels will correspond
with those recommended for the class of mechanical stoker in "Firing Equipments
and their Fuels" published in two sections by the Combustion Engineering
Association, 70 Jermyn Street, London, S.ff.1.
4 Furnaces installed on or after 31st December, 1956, are subject to
the provision of section 3(1) of the Act that "no furnace shall be installed...
unless it is so far as practicable capable of being operated continuously
without emitting smoke when burning fuel of a type for which the furnace was
designed."; and in view of the other provisions of section 3 the local