Certified Quality / Definition; The Clean Air Act 1993 And Smoke Control Areas - Spartherm XS 500 Installation And Operating Instructions Manual

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Certified quality / definition

Our fireplace cassettes are tested according to DIN 13229.
This family of cassettes can be installed in four standard sizes (500-900) into,
for example, existing open fireplaces.
However, it is also possible to install the fireplace cassette in a similar way to
a fireplace insert if the appropriate tests have been completed. This includes
taking into account the relevant sizes of the air supply and recirculation
openings.
The fireplace cassettes have a self-closing firebox door so that the door is
only opened for operating the fireplace (e.g. cleaning the firebox or for putting
more fuel on the fire). It is not permitted to tamper with the closing mecha-
nism for safety reasons and should this occur it will invalidate the guarantee
and the approval to use the fireplace cassette. The guarantee and the
approval to use the fireplace cassette are also invalidated if the cassette is
technically modified in any other area by the customer.
1.1 The Clean Air Act 1993 and Smoke
Control Areas
Under the Clean Air Act local authorities may declare the whole or part of the
district of the authority 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. 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).
The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has powers
under the Act to authorise smokeless fuels or exempt appliances for use in
smoke control areas in England. In Scotland and Wales this power rests with
Ministers in the devolved administrations for those countries. Separate
legislation, the Clean Air (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, applies in Northern
Ireland. Therefore it is a requirement that fuels burnt or obtained for use in
smoke control areas have been "authorised" in Regulations and that
appliances used to burn solid fuel in those areas (other than "authorised"
fuels) have been exempted by an Order made and signed by the Secretary of
State or Minister in the devolved administrations.
Further information on the requirements of the Clean Air Act can be found
here : http://smokecontrol.defra.gov.uk/
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