Shrewsbury & Atcham
Borough Council

BUILDING BYELAWS
Made under the Public Health Act 1936
And the Clean Air Act 1956

SMOKE PREVENTION

BUILDING BYELAWS

Made under Section 61 of the Public Health Act 1936, and Section 24 of the Clean Air Act 1956, by the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Shrewsbury acting by the Council

1. The following Part shall be inserted between Part IV and Part V of the series of building byelaws made by the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Shrewsbury acting by the Council for the Borough of Shrewsbury on the nineteenth day of January 1954 and confirmed by the Minister of Housing and Local Government on the eighth day of March 1954 (and hereinafter called "the Byelaws of 1954").

PART IVA - SMOKE PREVENTION

Arrangements in Buildings for Preventing Smoke

113A (1) There shall be provided in a new building (except in so far as heating is provided by furnaces to which Section 3 of the Clean Air Act 1956 applies) only such appliances for heating or cooking as are suitable designed for burning any of the following fuels, namely:-

(a) gas
(b) electricity
(c) coke, or anthracite

or are appliances of a description exempted conditionally or unconditionally from the provisions of Section 11 of the Clean Air Act 1956 (which relates to smoke control areas) by any order for the time being in force under subsection (4) of that Section.

(2) This byelaw shall not apply in relation to a building begun before the date on which the byelaw comes into operation, or begun after that date in pursuance of plans deposited in accordance with byelaws before that date.

(3) Nothing in the foregoing provisions of these byelaws shall be taken to apply this byelaw when an alteration or extension is made to a building.

2. These byelaws shall be constructed as one with the byelaws of 1954.