{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cory-decarbonisation-project-order-2025/schedule-12/paragraph-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/cory-decarbonisation-project-order-2025/schedule-12/paragraph-72.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/72",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Survey of riverbed",
  "text": "(1) The PLA may, at the undertaker’s expense (such expense to be that which is reasonably incurred), carry out a survey (or externally procure the carrying out of a survey) for the purpose of establishing the condition of the river Thames—\n(a) before the commencement of construction of the first specified work below mean high water level to be constructed following approval under paragraph 59;\n(b) before the commencement of construction of any other specified work, or the carrying out of any other specified function, approved under paragraph 59;\n(c) during the construction of any specified work, or the carrying out of any specified function, as is reasonably required, and\n(d) after completion of, respectively—\n(i) any specified work and the exercise of all related specified functions; and\n(ii) all the specified works constructed and specified functions carried out under this Order in relation to such construction,\nof such parts of the river Thames as might be affected by sedimentation, scouring, currents, wave action or material worsening of the condition of the river bed that might result from the construction of the relevant specified work, or the carrying out of a specified function as would, if it were to be constructed or carried out, constitute specified works, or give rise to operations, below mean high water level.\n(2) Except where it relates to the authorised navigational channel of the river Thames or in an emergency, the PLA may only carry out surveys under sub-paragraph (1)(c)—\n(a) if it has given at least 14 days’ notice of its intention to do so to the undertaker (unless otherwise agreed by the undertaker);\n(b) if the timing of the survey has been agreed in advance of the surveys by the undertaker; and\n(c) subject to the undertaker’s ability to refuse access for surveys if the undertaker considers that the carrying out of surveys at that time would lead to safety concerns in the construction of the specified work or the carrying out of the specified function.\n(3) The PLA must make available to the undertaker the results of any survey carried out under this paragraph.\n(4) The PLA must not under this paragraph carry out a survey of any part of the river Thames in respect of which the undertaker has provided to the PLA survey material which the PLA is satisfied establishes the condition of the river Thames, and in the case of a survey under sub-paragraph (1)(b), the effect of the specified works and the specified functions.\n(5) A survey carried out under this paragraph is the property of the PLA.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 72 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/72",
    "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."
}