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“The Clean Air Act 1993 and Smoke Control Areas”
Under the Clean Air Act local authorities may declare the whole or part of the district of
the authority to be a smoke control area. It is an offence to emit smoke from a chimney
of a building, from a furnace or from any fixed boiler if located in a designated smoke
control area. It is also an offence to acquire an “unauthorised fuel” for use within a
smoke control area unless it is used in an “exempt” appliance (“exempted” from the
controls which generally apply in the smoke control area).
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has powers under the
Act to authorise smokeless fuels or exempt appliances for use in smoke control areas
in England. In Scotland and Wales this power rests with Ministers in the devolved
administrations for those countries. Separate legislation, the Clean Air (Northern
Ireland) Order 1981, applies in Northern Ireland. Therefore it is a requirement that fuels
burnt or obtained for use in smoke control areas have been “authorised” in Regulations
and that appliances used to burn solid fuel in those areas (other than “authorised”
fuels) have been exempted by an Order made and signed by the Secretary of State or
Minister in the devolved administrations.
Further information on the requirements of the Clean Air Act can be found here:
www.gov.uk/smoke-control-area-rules
Your local authority is responsible for implementing the Clean Air Act 1993 including
designation and supervision of smoke control areas and you can contact them for
details of Clean Air Act requirements.
The Chilli Penguin Stock Cube Series, the Penguin 7 Series and The Seventy Ate “78”
Series are exempt stoves which means you can use them in smoke control areas to
burn seasonal wood.
If you live in a smoke control area (introduced by The Clean Air Act, 1993, see below)
you are permitted to burn approved smokeless fuel only, this does not include wood.
However if you use an Exempt stove then you can burn seasoned wood. All of these
stoves are wood only.
This appliances is not exempted when burning wood briquettes or paper bricks or
unauthorised fuels.
The general principle to be observed in an Exempt chilli penguin stove is that the
air control cannot be completely closed, allowing a permanent air supply to the fire
chamber. This means that fuel burns more efficiently, thereby emitting less harmful
emissions into the atmosphere. This adaptation is factory fitted in these stoves.
3.c Smoke Control Areas and Exemption of Appliances
These Chilli Penguin Ecodesign stoves are fitted with a mechanical stop to prevent
closure of the air control beyond 39mm for the Stock Cube Series, 38mm for the
Penguin 7 Series and 42mm for The Seventy Ate “78” Series.
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