# The Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm Order 2025, Paragraph 74: Provisional Certificate for cable works

Extent: E+W

(1) As soon as the undertaker considers that the provisional certificate for the cable works may be properly issued it must apply to National Highways for the provisional certificate.
(2) Following an application for a provisional certificate, National Highways must as soon as reasonably practicable—
(a) inspect the area of the highway within the strategic road network over the route of the cable works; and
(b) provide the undertaker with a written list of works that are required for the provisional certificate to be issued or confirmation that no further works are required for this purpose.
(3) When the cable works incorporating any further works notified to the undertaker pursuant to sub-paragraph 74(2)(b) have been completed to the reasonable satisfaction of National Highways, National Highways must issue the provisional certificate.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1376/schedule/9/paragraph/74 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/five-estuaries-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-9/paragraph-74
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