The Smoke Control Areas (Authorised Fuels) Regulations 1991
Section 11 of the Clean Air Act 1956 makes the occupier of abuilding within a smoke control area guilty of an offence if smoke isemitted from the chimney of that building unless it can be proved thatthe emission of smoke was caused solely by the use of an authorisedfuel. These Regulations revoke all previous authorised fuel Regulationsand specify all fuels which are currently authorised fuels for thepurposes of the 1956 Act. The specified fuels are authorised for use inany part of Great Britain. Although most of the fuels in theseRegulations have previously been authorised fuels, there have beenchanges in the way in which the fuels are described in many cases. Thedescriptions reflect current manufacturing methods.