{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogger-bank-teesside-a-and-b-offshore-wind-farm-order-2015/schedule-12/part-5/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1592",
  "legislation_title": "The Dogger Bank Teesside A and B Offshore Wind Farm Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dogger-bank-teesside-a-and-b-offshore-wind-farm-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/12/part/5/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Part—\n“Agency” means the Environment Agency;\n“construction” includes execution, placing, altering, replacing, relaying and removal; and “construct” and “constructed” must be construed accordingly;\n“drainage work” means any watercourse and includes—\n(a)any land that provides or is expected to provide flood storage capacity for any watercourse;\n(b)any bank, wall, embankment or other structure, or any appliance, constructed or used for land drainage, flood defence or tidal monitoring; and\n(c)any ancillary works constructed as a consequence of works carried out for drainage purposes;\n“fishery” means any watercourse within the Order limits containing fish, fish in such waters and the spawn, habitat or food of such fish;\n“plans” includes sections, drawings, specifications and method statements;\n“specified work” means so much of any work or operation authorised by this Order as is in, on, under, over or within 16 metres of, a drainage work or is otherwise likely to—\n(a)affect any drainage work or the volumetric rate of flow of water in or flowing to or from any drainage work;\n(b)affect the flow, purity or quality of water in any watercourse or other surface waters or ground water;\n(c)cause obstruction to the free passage of fish or damage to any fishery; or\n(d)affect the conservation, distribution or use of water resources;\n“watercourse” means all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, cuts, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows except a public sewer.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 Pt. 5 para. 2 in force at 26.8.2015, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1592/schedule/12/part/5/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:33:07.566234+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."
}