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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/five-estuaries-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-135",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/five-estuaries-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-135.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/135",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "135",
  "heading": "Final Certificate",
  "text": "(1) The local highway authority must as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event within 25 business days of the last of sub-paragraphs (a) to (f) of this paragraph being satisfied issue a final certificate in respect of the works where—\n(a) the maintenance period has passed;\n(b) all incomplete works and identified defects requiring remediation under sub-paragraph 132(1) have been remedied to the local highway authority’s reasonable satisfaction;\n(c) the undertaker has given the local highway authority a reasonable opportunity to inspect the relevant works in readiness for the issue of a final certificate and has given due consideration and acted accordingly in respect of any representations and recommendations made by the local highway authority in respect of the works;\n(d) the undertaker has provided the local highway authority with a health and safety file in respect of the relevant works conforming in all respects to the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 to the local highway authority’s reasonable satisfaction;\n(e) the undertaker has provided the local highway authority with traffic signal information (in so far as is relevant);\n(f) the undertaker has provided the local highway authority with street lighting information (in so far as is relevant);\n(g) in relation to any permanent works only (which for the avoidance of doubt will exclude any maintenance of the street works or maintenance works)—\n(i) the undertaker has provided the local highway authority with records of earthworks including source and description of fill material description of sub grades in cut areas and test results;\n(ii) the undertaker has provided the local highway authority with the structural maintenance manual to include soil reports, records of materials tested and revised forms TA1 and design certificates;\n(iii) the undertaker has provided the local highway authority with the appropriate maintenance manual or manuals;\n(iv) the undertaker has provided the local highway authority with as built drawings and such detailed information as the local highway authority has requested (acting reasonably) in relation to the relevant works as built;\n(v) where there are structures required as part of the works the undertaker has provided the local highway authority with the appropriate construction compliance certificate or certificates;\n(vi) the undertaker has provided the local highway authority with a complete set of hard copies and a digital copy containing a complete set of as-built drawings for the whole of the Works showing (inter alia) undertakers’ plant and equipment, such drawings to be to such scale or scales as the local highway authority may reasonably require for the purpose of subsequent maintenance and further works;\n(vii) the undertaker has provided the local highway authority with a plan showing edged red the land added to the local highway as public highway; and\n(viii) any drains which the local highway authority considers should be constructed to dispose of soil and surface water drainage in connection with the relevant works and in order to make them appropriate for public use have been constructed.\n(2) The issue of a final certificate by the local highway authority amounts to an acknowledgment by the relevant local highway authority that the construction, alteration or diversion of a highway has been completed to its reasonable satisfaction for the purposes of article 12 (construction and maintenance of new or altered highway) of this Order.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 135 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/135",
    "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."
}