The Clean Air Act and Boats




Canal boats are not exempt from the Clean Air Act.

This point was made clear by Marcus Jones, AMIMarEST, TechIIMS, a Registered Marine Surveyor, at the Friends of Regent's Canal meeting on 20th November 2013.

Marcus has supplied a document, explaining how, why and when canal boats are affected by this existing legislation.

The relevant sections of the Clean Air Act are embedded in his document. For ease of reference, they can also be seen here.





Documents supplied by Marcus Jones



Main Document : Clean-Air-and-boats-V2.0.pdf

Annex 1 : Ringelmann-Smoke-Chart.pdf

Annex 2 : Ringelman-ob-table.pdf

Cover Page : Smoke-Tpage_v2.0.pdf





Further Information


To view the a full version of this Act online, please visit the following page
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/11/section/64

Note. The online version has changed since 1993 and it is more up to date than the printed version used for the above extracts. One of the changes is that the Clean Air Act now refers to the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 instead of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 when defining a "ship". The differences are as follows:-

1894 section 742
" Ship " includes every description of vessel used in navigation not propelled by oars ;

1995 section 313
"ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation;