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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/green-hill-solar-farm-order-2026/schedule-15/paragraph-66",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/1074",
  "legislation_title": "The Green Hill Solar Farm Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/green-hill-solar-farm-order-2026",
  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/66",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "Payments",
  "text": "(1) The undertaker must pay to National Highways a sum equal to the costs and expenses which National Highways reasonably and properly incurs (including costs and expenses for using internal or external staff and costs relating to work which becomes abortive) in relation to the cable works and road works and in relation to any approvals sought under this Order, or otherwise incurred under this Part, including—\n(a) the checking and approval of the information required under paragraphs 64(1) and 64(2);\n(b) the supervision of the cable works and road works;\n(c) contractual costs properly payable to the highway operations and maintenance contractor as a consequence of any road works or cable works, including costs incurred by the highway operations and maintenance contractor in carrying out the tasks referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b), in which case National Highways will be responsible for the payment of any sums received from the undertaker under this paragraph to the highway operations and maintenance contractor;\n(d) the checking and approval of the information required to determine approvals under this Order;\n(e) all costs relating to the transfer of any land required for the road works or cable works;\n(f) all legal and administrative costs and disbursements incurred by National Highways in connection with the exercise by the undertaker of the powers in the Order and paragraphs (a) to (c) of this sub-paragraph; and\n(g) any value added tax which is payable by National Highways in respect of such costs and expenses and for which it cannot obtain reinstatement from HM Revenue and Customs,\ntogether comprising “the NH costs”.\n(2) The undertaker must pay to National Highways upon demand and prior to such costs being incurred the total costs that National Highways believe will be properly and necessarily incurred by National Highways in undertaking any statutory procedure or preparing and bringing into force any traffic regulation order or orders necessary to carry out or for effectively implementing the authorised development.\n(3) National Highways must provide the undertaker with a schedule showing its estimate of the NH costs prior to the commencement of the cable works and road works. The undertaker must pay to National Highways the estimate of the NH costs prior to commencing the road works or cable works and in any event prior to National Highways incurring any cost.\n(4) If at any time after the payment referred to in sub-paragraph (3) has become payable, National Highways reasonably believes that the NH costs will exceed the estimated NH costs it may give notice to the undertaker of the amount that it believes the NH costs will exceed the estimate of the NH costs (the excess) and the undertaker must pay to National Highways within 28 days of the date of receipt of a properly issued VAT invoice from National Highways addressed to the undertaker for the excess sum, a sum equal to the excess.\n(5) National Highways must give the undertaker a final account of the NH costs referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above within 91 days of the issue of both the road works provisional certificate and the cable works provisional certificate issued pursuant to paragraph 67(4) and 68(4).\n(6) Within 30 days of the issue of the final account—\n(a) if the final account shows a further sum as due to National Highways the undertaker must pay to National Highways the sum shown due to it;\n(b) if the account shows that the payment or payments previously made by the undertaker have exceeded the costs incurred by National Highways, National Highways must refund the difference to the undertaker.\n(7) If any payment due under the provisions of this Part of this Schedule is not made on or before the date on which it falls due, the party from whom it was due must at the same time as making the payment pay to the other party interest at 3% above the Bank of England base lending rate from time to time being in force for the period starting on the date upon which the payment fell due and ending with the date of payment of the sum on which interest is payable together with that interest.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1074/schedule/15/paragraph/66",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:54:07.044962+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."
}