{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cory-decarbonisation-project-order-2025/schedule-12/paragraph-70",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cory-decarbonisation-project-order-2025/schedule-12/paragraph-70.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1227",
  "legislation_title": "The Cory Decarbonisation Project Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cory-decarbonisation-project-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/70",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "70",
  "heading": "Abandoned or decayed works",
  "text": "(1) If a specified work or a structure which remains in the river Thames by virtue of article 8 (interaction with the 1968 Act) is abandoned or falls into decay, the PLA may by notice in writing require the undertaker to take such reasonable steps as may be specified in the notice either to repair or restore the specified work or structure, or any part of it, or to remove the specified work or structure and (to such extent and within such limits as the PLA reasonably requires) restore the site of that work to its condition prior to the construction of the specified work or structure.\n(2) If any specified work or structure which remains in the river Thames by virtue of article 8 (interaction with the 1968 Act) is in such condition that it is, or is likely to become, a danger to or an interference with navigation in the river Thames, the PLA may by notice in writing require the undertaker to take such reasonable steps as may be specified in the notice—\n(a) to repair and restore the work or structure or part of it; or\n(b) if the undertaker so elects, to remove the specified work or structure and (to such extent as the PLA reasonably requires) to restore the work or structure to its former condition.\n(3) If on the expiration of such reasonable period as may be specified in a notice under this paragraph the work specified in the notice has not been completed to the satisfaction of the PLA, the PLA may undertake that work and any expenditure reasonably incurred by the PLA in so doing is recoverable from the undertaker.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 70 in force at 27.11.2025, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1227/schedule/12/paragraph/70",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:09:19.424447+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."
}