The Smoke Control Areas (Exempted Fireplaces) (Wales) Order 2001

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Smoke Control Areas (Exempted Fireplaces) (Wales) Order 2001 and comes into force on the 1st April 2001.

(2) This Order applies to Wales.

Classes of fireplace exempted from section 20 of the Clean Air Act 1993

2.  The classes of fireplace described in the Schedule are, upon the conditions there specified, exempted from the provisions of section 20 of the Clean Air Act 1993 (which prohibits smoke emissions in smoke control areas).

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(1).

D.Elis Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

22nd March 2001