Schedule 12: Smoke control in England and Wales Part 1: Principal amendments to the Clean Air Act 1993: England New section 26A Duty of local authority to reimburse for adaptations of vessels in England
This section sets out the criteria by which local authorities in England are required to reimburse owners or occupiers of vessels that are subject to a smoke control order, for works carried out to avoid incurring a financial penalty under new Schedule 1A to the Clean Air Act 1993.
	Subsection (1) sets out the criteria an owner or occupier of a vessel must meet in order to be eligible for reimbursement under these provisions. For example, the vessel must have the right to moor at a single mooring place for the qualifying period, the owner or occupier must complete the adaptations prior to the coming into operation of the order, and the owner or occupier must not have access to mains gas or electricity.
	Subsection (2) provides further conditions for when reimbursement will be required, and requires local authorities to reimburse the owner or occupier of a vessel 70% of the expenditure incurred in carrying out the adaptations if the adaptations are completed prior to the coming into operation of the order, the local authority approves the expenditure, and the adaptations are completed to the satisfaction of the local authority.
	Subsection (3) stipulates that reimbursement must be paid in equal monthly instalments for a period of six months.
	Subsection (4) removes the duty on local authorities to reimburse the owner or occupier of a vessel, should the owner or occupier cease to have the right to moor at the single mooring place or the vessel be absent from the smoke control area for one or more periods totalling three months.
	Paragraph 6 inserts new section 28A after section 28.