# The Cory Decarbonisation Project Order 2025, Paragraph 1 Extent: E+W In this licence— “the 2008 Act” means the Planning Act 2008; “the 2009 Act” means the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009; “the authorised development” has the meaning given in paragraph 3(2); “business day” means a day other than a Saturday or Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day or a bank holiday in England and Wales under section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971; “commence” means beginning to carry out any part of a licensed activity and “commenced” and “commencement” are to be construed accordingly; “construction licensed activity” means any licensed activity which does not constitute maintenance activities or maintenance dredging; “condition” means a condition in Part 2 and Part 3 of this licence and references in this licence to numbered conditions are to the conditions with those numbers in Part 2; “code of construction practice” means the document of that description approved under requirement 7 (code of construction practice) of the Order; “environmental statement” means the document of that description in Schedule 13 (documents and plans to be certified) to the Order, certified by the Secretary of State as the environmental statement for the purposes of the Order; “licensable area” means the grid coordinates within the UK Marine Area within which the undertaker may carry out a licensed activity, as set out in paragraph 3(3) of Part 1 of this Schedule and as shown on the works plans; “licensed activity” means any of the activities specified in Part 1 of this licence; “limits of deviation” has the same meaning as in the Order; “maintenance activities” means activities carried out by the undertaker pursuant to article 5 (maintenance of authorised development) of the Order; “maintenance dredging” means dredging carried out by the undertaker after the final construction licensed activity; “the MMO” means the Marine Management Organisation; “the Order” means the Cory Decarbonisation Project Order 2025; “percussive piling” means piling by sinking or driving a pile by direct or indirect hammering or other percussive means, including piling by the use of a drop hammer, diesel hammer, double acting hammer, single acting hammer internal drop hammer, pneumatic hammer, steam hammer or other percussive device, other than a device that is portable and designed for operation while held by hand without any other form of support; “the River” means so much of the river Thames and the Thames estuary, as is within the UK marine area; “seabed” means the ground under the sea; “the undertaker” means Cory Environmental Holdings Limited (company number 05360864) and any transferee pursuant to article 10 (consent to transfer benefit of the Order) of the Order; “vessel” means every description of vessel, however propelled or moved, and includes a non-displacement craft, a personal watercraft, a seaplane on the surface of the water, a hydrofoil vessel, a hovercraft of any other amphibious vehicle and any other thing constructed or adapted for movement through, in, or on or over water and which is at the time in, on or over water; and “the works plans” has the same meaning as in the Order. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1227/schedule/11/paragraph/1 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/cory-decarbonisation-project-order-2025/schedule-11/paragraph-1 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.