Clean Air (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 - Overview

Under the Clean Air (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 a district council may declare the whole or part of a district of the council 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 unless an authorised fuel is used. 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).