{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hornsea-two-offshore-wind-farm-order-2016/schedule-12/part-6/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hornsea-two-offshore-wind-farm-order-2016/schedule-12/part-6/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/844",
  "legislation_title": "The Hornsea Two Offshore Wind Farm Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hornsea-two-offshore-wind-farm-order-2016",
  "path": "schedule/12/part/6/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The relevant undertaker must not—\n(a) execute any works that interfere with, build over or are near to any apparatus within the Order land;\n(b) execute the placing, installation, bedding, packing, removal, connection or disconnection of any apparatus; or\n(c) where the apparatus is laid in a trench, execute any filling around the apparatus within the standard protection strips, which are the strips of land falling the following distances to either side of the medial line of any apparatus—\n(i) 2.25 metres, where the diameter of the pipe is less than 150 millimetres;\n(ii) 3 metres, where the diameter of the pipe is 150 millimetres or more but less than 450 millimetres;\n(iii) 4.5 metres, where the diameter of the pipe is 450 millimetres or more but less than 750 millimetres; and\n(iv) 6 metres, where the diameter of the pipe is 750 millimetres or more,\nunless the relevant undertaker has submitted to Anglian Water, not less than 28 days before starting the execution of any works, a plan and description of the works to be executed.\n(2) The works must be executed only in accordance with the plan and description submitted under sub-paragraph (1) and in accordance with such reasonable requirements as may be made in accordance with sub-paragraph (3) by Anglian Water for the alteration or otherwise for the protection of the apparatus, or for securing access to it; and an officer of Anglian Water is entitled to watch and inspect the execution of the works.\n(3) Any requirements made by Anglian Water under sub-paragraph (2) must be made within a period of 21 days beginning with the date on which a plan and description under sub-paragraph (1) are submitted to it.\n(4) Nothing in this paragraph precludes the relevant undertaker from submitting at any time or from time to time, but in no case less than 28 days before commencing the execution of any works, a new plan and description instead of the plan and description previously submitted, and once the relevant undertaker has done so the provisions of this paragraph apply to and in respect of the new plan and description.\n(5) The relevant undertaker is not required to comply with sub-paragraph (1) in a case of emergency, but in that case it must give to Anglian Water notice as soon as is reasonably practicable and a plan and description of the works as soon as reasonably practicable subsequently and must comply with sub-paragraph (2) in so far as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances.\n(6) It is reasonable for Anglian Water to require that the placing, installation, bedding, packing, removal, connection or disconnection of any apparatus, or the filling around the apparatus (where the apparatus is laid in a trench) be executed by Anglian Water.\n(7) Anglian Water must execute any requirement made under sub-paragraph (6) in a timely manner.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 Pt. 6 para. 4 in force at 7.9.2016, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/844/schedule/12/part/6/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:20:47.565046+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."
}