The Smoke Control Areas (Exempted Fireplaces) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999
Paragraph (1) of Article 17 of the Clean Air (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (“the 1981 Order”) empowers district councils to declare the whole or any part of their district to be a smoke control area in which the emission of smoke from a building is, generally, an offence under paragraph (2) of that Article.