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Nelson/Tasman Regulations for Solid Fuel Burners

Nelson Regulations

  • <1.5g/kg of emissions
  • >65% efficiency

Properties greater than 2 hectares are excluded from the requirements.

Airshed A or Airshed B1

  • If your existing enclosed burner was installed before 1996, you cannot use it after 1 January 2010.
  • If your existing enclosed burner was installed between 1996 and 1999, you cannot use it after 1 January 2012.
  • If your existing enclosed burner was installed between 2000 and 2003, you cannot use it after 1 January 2013 unless it is one of Council’s authorised burners.

Airshed B2

  • If your existing enclosed burner was installed before 1991, you cannot use it after 1 January 2010.
  • If your existing enclosed burner was installed between 1991 and 1995, you cannot use it after 1 January 2012.
  • If your existing enclosed burner was installed after 1995, you can carry on using it, there is no phase out date for your burner.

Airshed C or the Glen

  • There is no scheduled phase out of enclosed burners in these areas. An existing enclosed burner can only be replaced with an authorised burner from the Council list, except at The Glen where any house can have an authorised burner.


Tasman Regulations for Solid Fuel Burners

  • <1.5g/kg of emissions
  • >65% efficiency

Multi-fuels, pellet fires, cookers, open fires and boilers are excluded from the requirements.
Properties >2ha are excluded from the requirements. 

Disclaimer
Whilst every effort has been made to provide correct information as to the Clean Air Rules before making any purchase a purchaser should make their own inquiry of the relevant authority and Pyro Fires Ltd accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any error in or any omission from the information supplied.

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