{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/green-hill-solar-farm-order-2026/schedule-15/paragraph-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/green-hill-solar-farm-order-2026/schedule-15/paragraph-72.json",
  "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/72",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Final Certificate",
  "text": "(1) The undertaker must apply to National Highways for the final certificate no sooner than 12 months from the date of the issuing of both the road works provisional certificate and the cable works provisional certificate.\n(2) Following receipt of the application for the final certificate, National Highways must as soon as reasonably practicable—\n(a) inspect the strategic road network; and\n(b) provide the undertaker with a written list of any further works required to remedy or make good any defect or damage in the strategic road network as resulting from the cable works or road works or confirmation that no such works are required for this purpose.\n(3) The undertaker must carry out such works notified to it pursuant to sub-paragraph (2).\n(4) When National Highways is satisfied that—\n(a) any defects or damage arising from defects during the defects period and any defects notified to the undertaker pursuant to sub-paragraph (2) and any remedial works required as a result of any relevant stage 4 road safety audit have been made good to the satisfaction of National Highways; and\n(b) the NH costs have been paid to National Highways in full;\nNational Highways must issue the final certificate.\n(5) The bond sum is released in full upon the issue of the final certificate, provided that in the event any claim or claims have been made against the undertaker or liability on its part has arisen under the bond sum (which here will also include any claim or claims to which National Highways are joined howsoever they arise) National Highways will be at liberty to retain a sufficient sum to ensure it does not have to meet any costs for or arising from or in connection with the road works or cable works.\n(6) The undertaker must pay to National Highways within 28 days of the date of receipt of a properly issued invoice from National Highways addressed to the undertaker, the costs incurred by National Highways in identifying the defects and supervising and inspecting the undertaker’s work to remedy the defects that it is required to remedy pursuant to this paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/1074/schedule/15/paragraph/72",
    "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."
}