{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/associated-british-ports-immingham-green-energy-terminal-order-2025/schedule-14/paragraph-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/associated-british-ports-immingham-green-energy-terminal-order-2025/schedule-14/paragraph-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/165",
  "legislation_title": "The Associated British Ports (Immingham Green Energy Terminal) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/associated-british-ports-immingham-green-energy-terminal-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/14/paragraph/22",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Submission and approval of plans",
  "text": "(1) Before beginning to construct any specified work, the undertaker must submit to the Agency plans of the specified work and such further particulars available to it as the Agency may within 28 days of receipt of the plans reasonably request.\n(2) Any submission made by the undertaker under sub-paragraph (1) and any approval given bythe Agency under this paragraph, may be in respect of all or part of a specified work.\n(3) Any specified work must not be constructed except in accordance with such plans as may be approved in writing by the Agency under this paragraph or determined under paragraph 32 (disputes).\n(4) Any approval of the Agency required under this paragraph—\n(a) must not be unreasonably withheld or delayed;\n(b) subject to sub-paragraph (6), is deemed to have been refused if it is neither given nor refused within 2 months of the submission of the plans or receipt of further particulars if such particulars have been reasonably requested by the Agency for approval; and\n(c) may be given subject to such reasonable requirements as the Agency may have for the protection of any drainage work or the fishery or for the protection of water resources or for the prevention of flooding or pollution or for nature conservation in the discharge of its environmental duties.\n(5) The Agency must use its reasonable endeavours to approve or refuse approval pursuant to the submission of any plans under this paragraph before the expiration of the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (4)(b).\n(6) Where the plans or any further particulars submitted to the Agency for approval under sub-paragraph (1) relate to activities which are situated within or might otherwise affect a protected site the period of time specified in sub-paragraph (4)(b) is extended to 3 months to allow the Agency to consult Natural England before responding to the request for approval and the Agency’s response to that request for approval must take into account any comments received from Natural England.\n(7) In the case of a refusal, the Agency must provide a written statement of the reasons for the grounds of refusal.\n(8) In the event that the Agency gives an approval under this paragraph in respect of a specified work, or part of it, that specified work, or the relevant part of it, may be constructed, maintained, used, operated or decommissioned by the undertaker in accordance with the plans and particulars approved by the Agency or determined under paragraph 32 (disputes) notwithstanding anything in the licences.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 22 in force at 27.2.2025, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/165/schedule/14/paragraph/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:20:25.915436+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}