# The Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm Order 2025, Paragraph 177: Protection of National Grid apparatus

Extent: E+W

(1) Regardless of any provision in this Order or anything shown on the land plans or contained in the book of reference to this Order, the undertaker may not, under the powers of this Order, adjust, remove, alter, divert or interfere with any apparatus owned by National Grid (including any future electric transmission infrastructure in the vicinity of the Order Land which National Grid may require to discharge its statutory duties) otherwise than by agreement.
(2) The undertaker will not seek to acquire or exercise any rights to remove any National Grid apparatus under compulsory powers granted by this Order, including but not limited to the power to—
“install, alter, re-lay, maintain, protect, adjust or remove pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus including but not limited to electricity poles, electricity pylons, electricity masts, overhead electricity lines, telecommunications cables and any ancillary equipment and apparatus public and private drains, watercourses, sewers, ponds or culverts, service media (including the pipes, cables or conduits or apparatus of statutory undertakers)”;
without the prior written consent of National Grid to any such acquisition or exercise being obtained.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1376/schedule/9/paragraph/177 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/five-estuaries-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-177
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.