{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/five-estuaries-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-133",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/five-estuaries-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-133.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1376",
  "legislation_title": "The Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/five-estuaries-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/133",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "133",
  "heading": "Provisional Certificate",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), when the undertaker considers that the works have reached completion so that they are available and safe for use by the public it must serve a provisional certificate on the local highway authority and must allow the local highway authority the opportunity to inspect the works to identify any defects or incomplete works (and the undertaker must give proper consideration to any representations and recommendations made by the local highway authority and make good such defects pursuant to paragraph 132 or complete incomplete works).\n(2) The undertaker must not serve a provisional certificate on the local highway authority under sub-paragraph (1) until either—\n(a) a stage 3 road safety audit has been carried out in respect of the works in question in accordance with HNP039 or GG19 of DMRB as advised by the local highway authority (acting reasonably), and in the opinion of the local highway authority any reasonable recommended measures identified in the audit and which the local highway authority considers to be necessary, have been completed; or\n(b) the local highway authority has been provided an opportunity to inspect the works and the undertaker has, in its opinion, completed any further works or measures required to address any safety deficiencies or defects identified as a result of the inspection.\n(3) The local highway authority must issue to the undertaker, on request from the undertaker, a counter-signed provisional certificate in relation to any part of the works, after completion of that part of the works once a stage 3 safety audit has been carried out in accordance with sub-paragraph (2).\n(4) The undertaker will agree with the local highway authority (such agreement not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) the date of opening of the works to the public and take appropriate steps to officially record the same.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 133 in force at 8.1.2026, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1376/schedule/9/paragraph/133",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:07:51.328273+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."
}