(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations revoke and replace with amendments the Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012. The Regulations list fuels to be authorised fuels for the purposes of Article 2(2) of the Clean Air (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.
Three additional fuels are authorised (Schedule, paragraphs 57 to 59).
The Regulations contain a savings provision to provide that stocks of authorised fuels manufactured before these Regulations came into operation remain as authorised fuels (regulation 3(2)).