Clean Air Act 1993 (Chapter 11).

This Act consolidates the Clean Air Acts of 1956 and 1968 and certain related enactments. The Act, among other things: concerns dark smoke and the prohibition of dark smoke from chimneys, industrial and trade premises and the meaning of dark smoke; establishes the requirement that any new furnaces must, as far as is practical, be smokeless; imposes limits on emissions of grit and dust from furnaces, requirements for arrestment plants for non-domestic furnaces, emission monitoring provisions and chimney height regulations to ensure efficient and adequate dispersion of emissions; provides for the creation of smoke control areas and introduces prohibition on emission of smoke in controlled areas; establishes control procedures for certain types of air pollution (regulations about motor fuels, the sulphur content of oil fuels for furnaces and engines and cable burning); provides information on air pollution via research and publicity and for appeals processes.