Clean Air Act 1956 (repealed 27.8.1993)

15 Power of local authority to make grants towards adaptations to fireplaces in churches, chapels, buildings used by charities, &c. E+W+S

(1) If, after the [F1 making of an order] by a local authority under section eleven of this Act, the owner or occupier of any premises or part of any premises to which this section applies and which will be within a smoke control area as the result of the order incurs expenditure on adaptations in or in connection with the premises or part to avoid contraventions of the said section eleven, the local authority may, if they think fit, repay to him the whole or any part of that expenditure.

(2) This section applies to any premises or part of any premises which fall within one or more of the following paragraphs, that is to say—

(a) any place of public religious worship, being, in the case of a place in England or Wales, a place which belongs to the Church of England or to the Church in Wales (within the meaning of the M1 Welsh Church Act 1914) or which is for the time being certified as required by law as a place of religious worship;

(b) any church hall, chapel hall or similar premises used in connection with any such place of public religious worship, and so used for the purposes of the organisation responsible for the conduct of public religious worship in that place;

(c) any premises or part of any premises occupied for the purposes of an organisation (whether corporate or unincorporate) which is not established or conducted for profit and whose main objects are charitable or are otherwise concerned with the advancement of religion, education or social welfare.

(3) Section fourteen of this Act shall apply for the interpretation of this section as it applies for the interpretation of sections twelve and thirteen of this Act, but as if references therein to a dwelling were references to any premises or part of any premises to which this section applies.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65, SIF 81:1, 2), s. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2 (with effect for the purpose mentioned in s. 1(2)) except in application–) to orders made after the passing of Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 which revoke or vary orders made before its passing

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 15 excluded by Clean Air Act 1968 (c. 62), s. 11(1)

Marginal Citations

M1 1914 c. 91.