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http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/11/section/44Clean Air Act 1993An Act to consolidate the Clean Air Acts 1956 and 1968 and certain related enactments, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law Commission and the Scottish Law Commission.1993-05-27texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-05-17Expert Participation2022-05-01 Part VI Special Cases Vessels.441Section 1 (prohibition of emissions of dark smoke) shall apply in relation to vessels in waters to which this section applies as it applies in relation to buildings.2In the application of section 1 to a vessel—afor the reference in subsection (1) of that section to the occupier of the building there shall be substituted a reference to the owner of, and to the master or other officer or person in charge of, the vessel;breferences to a furnace shall be read as including references to an engine of the vessel; andcsubsection (5) of that section shall be omitted;and a person guilty of an offence under that section in relation to a vessel shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.2AA smoke control order made under section 18 by a local authority in England may provide for vessels which are moored in the smoke control area to be subject to the operation of Schedule 1A.2BFor the purposes of a smoke control order which so provides—aany reference in Part 3 and in section 54 to a building is to be read with any necessary modifications as a reference to such a vessel, butbreferences in sections 24 and 25 to dwellings do not include such vessels.2CIn subsection (2A) the reference to vessels which are moored includes a vessel which is unmoored but which is stationary at a mooring place in circumstances where it might reasonably be moored.3For the purposes of this Act a vessel in any waters to which this section applies which are not within the district of any local authority shall be deemed to be within the district of the local authority whose district includes that point on land which is nearest to the spot where the vessel is.4The waters to which this section applies are—aall waters not navigable by sea-going ships; andball waters navigable by sea-going ships which are within the seaward limits of the territorial waters of the United Kingdom and are contained within any port, harbour, river, estuary, haven, dock, canal or other place so long as a person or body of persons is empowered by or under any Act to make charges in respect of vessels entering it or using facilities in it.5In subsection (4) “charges” means any charges with the exception of light dues, local light dues and any other charges payable in respect of lighthouses, buoys or beacons and of charges in respect of pilotage.6Except as provided in this section, nothing in Parts I to III applies to smoke, grit or dust from any vessel.S. 44(2A)-(2C) inserted (E.W.) (1.5.2022) by Environment Act 2021 (c. 30), s. 147(3), Sch. 12 para. 7 (with s. 144, Sch. 12 para. 26); S.I. 2022/48, reg. 4(d)