Clean Air Act 1968 (repealed 27.8.1993)

1. Introductory Text

2. Dark smoke

   1. 1. Prohibition of dark smoke from industrial or trade premises.

3. Grit, dust and fumes

   1. 2. Emission of grit and dust from furnaces.

   2. 3. Requirement to fit arrestment plant to new furnaces.

   3. 4. Exemptions from requirement to fit arrestment plant.

   4. 5. Measurement of grit, dust and fumes emitted from furnaces.

   5. 6. Height of chimneys.

   6. 7. Application to fumes of certain provisions as to grit and dust.

   7. 7A. Application to gases of certain provisions as to grit and dust.

4. Smoke Control Areas

   1. 8. Power of appropriate Minister to require creation of smoke control areas.

   2. 9. Acquisition and sale of unauthorised fuel in a smoke control area.

   3. 10. Miscellaneous amendments of procedure for making orders with respect to smoke control areas.

5. Alkali, etc., works

   1. 11. Relation of Clean Air Acts to, and amendment of, Alkali Act.

   2. 11A. Relation to Environmental Protection Act 1990, Part I.

6. Supplemental

   1. 12. Regulations.

   2. 13. Interpretation.

   3. 14. Adaptation and minor and consequential amendments of principal Act, and repeals.

   4. 15. Short title, citation, commencement and extent.

7. SCHEDULES

   1. SCHEDULE 1

      Adaptation and Minor and Consequential Amendments of Principal Act

      1. 1. In sections 18, 19(3), 20(4), 22, 26, 27(5), 28, 29...

      2. 2. In section 7(2)(a) for the words “grit and dust" there...

      3. 3. In section 8(1) the reference to sections 6 and 7...

      4. 4. In section 9 for the reference to sections 5 to...

      5. 5. In section 16(1), after paragraph (b) there shall be substituted...

      6. 6. In section 21 for the words “the provisions of this...

      7. 7. In section 27(5), for the words “ten pounds" there shall...

      8. 8. In section 29(2), at the end there shall be added...

      9. 9. In section 30 references to section 1 of the principal...

      10. 10. In section 34(1), in the definition of “chimney" for the...

      11. 11. In section 34(2) the reference to section 1 of the...

      12. 12. In section 34(7) the reference to sections 6 to 8...

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      PROVISIONS OF PRINCIPAL ACT REPEALED

      1. Section 2.

      2. Section 5.

      3. In section 6, in subsection (1), the words from “and...

      4. In section 7, in subsection (1), the words from “or...

      5. In section 8(1), the words “or land", wherever occurring, and...

      6. Section 10 as respects any chimney seving a furnace.

      7. In section 14(1)(c), the words “flue or".

      8. Section 17(1), (2), (5) and (6).

      9. In section 20(1), the words “and two".

      10. Insection 34(1) the definition of “oven".