The Sulphur Content of Solid Fuel (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2022 No. 275

Environmental Protection

The Sulphur Content of Solid Fuel (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022

Made

25 October 2022

Coming into operation

18th November 2022

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs being a devolved authority (1), makes these regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 11 of, and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 and paragraph 21 of Schedule 7 to, the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (2):

Citation and commencement N.I.

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Sulphur Content of Solid Fuel (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2022 and shall come into operation on 18^th November 2022.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 1 in operation at 18.11.2022, see reg. 1

Amendment of the Sulphur Content of Solid Fuel Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 N.I.

2.—(1) The Sulphur content of Solid Fuel Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(3) amended as follows.

(2) For regulation 3(1) substitute—

“3.— (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 (4).”

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 2 in operation at 18.11.2022, see reg. 1

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs on 25^th October 2022.

Dave Foster

A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 11 of, and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 and paragraph 21 of Schedule 7 to, the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. The Regulations make amendments to the legislation in the field of air quality to remedy any failure of retained EU law to operate effectively.

Regulation 2 makes technical updating amendments to the Sulphur Content of Solid Fuel Regulation (Northern Ireland) 1998 by substituting a new British Standard for the determination of the total sulphur content.

(1)

See section 20(1) of 2018 c. 16

(2)

2018 c. 16; Schedule 2 was amended by section 27(7) of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020 (c. 1); Paragraph 21 of Schedule 7 was amended by paragraph 53(2(b) of Schedule 5 to that Act.

(3)

S.R. 1998 No. 329

(4)

British Standard BS 1016-106.4.2 is available online from the British Standards Shop.