Alkali, &c. Works Order 1966
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1966/1143 |
| Year | 1966 |
1966 No. 1143
CLEAN AIR
The Alkali, &c. Works Order 196612thSeptember 1966
19thSeptember 1966
1stDecember 1966
The Minister of Housing and Local Government, after a public inquiry and after consultation with the local authorities and other interests concerned, in exercise of his powers under section 4(1) of the Public Health (Smoke Abatement) Act 1926(a) as extended by section 17(3) of the Clean Air Act 1956(b), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following order:—
1. This order may be cited as the Alkali, &c. Works Order 1966 and shall come into operation on 1st December 1966.
2. The Interpretation Act 1889(c) applies for the interpretation of this order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3. The list of noxious and offensive gases mentioned in section 27 of the Alkali, &c. Works Regulation Act 1906(d) (as extended by the orders hereby revoked) shall be further extended to read as set out in Schedule 1 to this order.
4. Schedule 1 (as extended by the orders hereby revoked) to the said Act of 1906 shall be further extended to read as set out in Schedule 2 to this order.
5. The orders set out in Schedule 3 to this order are hereby revoked.
SCHEDULE 1
LIST OF NOXIOUS AND OFFENSIVE GASES AS EXTENDED
The expression "noxious or offensive gas" includes the following gases and fumes:—
Muriatic acid;
Sulphuric acid;
Sulphurous acid, except that arising solely from the combustion of coal;
Nitric acid and acid-forming oxides of nitrogen;
Sulphuretted hydrogen;
Chlorine and its acid compounds;
Fluorine compounds;
(b) 4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 52.
(d) 6 Edw. 7. c. 14.
Cyanogen compounds;
Bisulphide of carbon;
Chloride of sulphur;
Fumes from cement works;
Fumes containing copper, lead, antimony, arsenic, zinc, or their compounds;
Fumes from tar works;
Acetic acid;
Acetic anhydride;
Acetylene;
Aldehydes;
Amines;
Ammonia and its compounds;
Arsenic and its compounds;
Bromine and its acid compounds;
Carbon monoxide;
Fluorine;
Fumaric acid;
Fumes from benzene works;
Fumes from paraffin oil works;
Fumes containing aluminium, beryllium, cadmium, calcium, chlorine, chromium, iron, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, silicon, sodium, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, uranium or their compounds;
Iodine and its acid compounds;
Maleic acid;
Maleic anhydride;
Phthalic acid;
Phthalic anhydride;
Picolines;
Products containing hydrogen from the partial oxidation of hydrocarbons;
Pyridine;
Sulphuric anhydride;
Sulphurous anhydride, except that arising solely from the combustion of coal;
Volatile organic sulphur compounds.
SCHEDULE 2
SCHEDULE 1 OF THE ALKALI, &C. WORKS REGULATION ACT 1906 AS EXTENDED
LIST OF WORKS
(1) Sulphuric acid works, that is to say, works in which the manufacture of sulphuric acid is carried on by the lead chamber process, namely, the process by which sulphurous acid is converted into sulphuric acid by the agency of oxides of nitrogen and by the use of a lead chamber or by any other process involving the use of oxides of nitrogen.
(2) Sulphuric acid (Class II) works, that is to say, works in which the manufacture of sulphuric acid is carried on by any process other than the lead chamber process, and works for the concentration or distillation of sulphuric acid.
(3) Chemical manure works, that is to say, works in which the manufacture of chemical manure is carried on, and works in which any mineral phosphate is subjected to treatment involving chemical change through the application or use of any acid and works for the granulating of chemical manures involving the evolution of any noxious or offensive gas.
(4) Gas liquor works, that is to say, works (not being sulphate of ammonia works or muriate of ammonia works) in which sulphuretted hydrogen or any other noxious or offensive gas is evolved by the use of ammoniacal liquor in any manufacturing process, and works in which any such liquor is desulphurized by the application of heat in any process connected with the purification of gas.
(5) Nitric acid works, that is to say, works in which the manufacture of nitric acid is carried on and works in which nitric acid is recovered from oxides of nitrogen and works where in the manufacture of any product any acid-forming oxide of nitrogen is evolved.
(6) Sulphate of ammonia works, and muriate of ammonia works, that is to say, works in which the manufacture of sulphate of ammonia or of muriate of ammonia is carried on.
(7) Chlorine works, that is to say, works in which chlorine is made or used in any manufacturing process.
(8) Muriatic acid works, that is to say—
(a) Muriatic acid works, or works (not being alkali works as defined in this Act) where muriatic acid gas is evolved either during the preparation of liquid muriatic acid or for use in any manufacturing process or as the result of the use of chlorides in any chemical process.
(b) Tinplate flux works, that is to say, works in which any residue or flux from tinplate works is calcined for the utilization of such residue or flux, and in which muriatic acid gas is evolved; and
(c) Salt works, that is to say, works (not being works in which salt is produced by refining rock salt, otherwise than by the dissolution of rock salt at the place of deposit) in which the extraction of salt from brine is carried on, and in which muriatic acid gas is...
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