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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mona-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-14/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/870",
  "legislation_title": "The Mona Offshore Wind Farm Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mona-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/14/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this licence—\n“2004 Act” means the Energy Act 2004;\n“2008 Act” means the Planning Act 2008;\n“2009 Act” means the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009;\n“address” includes any number or address used for the purposes of electronic transmission;\n“ancillary works” means the ancillary works described in Part 2 of Schedule 1 (ancillary works) and any other works authorised by this Order that are not development within the meaning of section 32 of the 2008 Act;\n“authorised deposits” means the substances and articles specified in paragraph 4 of Part 1 of this licence;\n“authorised scheme” means the authorised development described as Work No. 1 and the further associated development described in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of this licence or any part of that work or development;\n“buoy” means any floating device used for navigational purposes or measurement purposes, including wave buoys, LiDAR and guard buoys;\n“cable” means up to 400kV cables for the transmission of electricity and includes direct lay cables, cables laid in cable ducts or protective covers, and further includes fibre optic and other communications cables either within the cable or laid alongside;\n“cable crossings” means the crossing of existing sub-sea cables, pipelines or other existing infrastructure by the cables authorised by this Order together with cable protection;\n“cable protection” means measures to protect cables from physical damage including but not limited to concrete mattresses, with or without frond devices, and/or rock placement, the use of bagged solutions filled with grout or other materials;\n“commence” means the first carrying out of any licensed marine activities, save for non-intrusive pre-construction surveys, unexploded ordnance surveys and low order unexploded ordnance clearance, and “commenced” and “commencement” must be construed accordingly;\n“commercial operation” means in relation to any part of the authorised scheme the exportation, transmission or conversion, on a commercial basis, of electricity;\n“condition” means a condition in Part 2 of this licence;\n“electronic transmission” means a communication transmitted—\n(a)by means of an electronic communications network; or\n(b)by other means but while in electronic form;\n“environmental statement” means the document certified as the environmental statement by the Secretary of State under article 41 (certification of plans and documents etc) of this Order including the documents listed in Table 6 of Schedule 15;\n“foundation” means any one or more of: a multi-leg pin piled jacket, multi-leg suction bucket jacket, or gravity base foundation;\n“gravity base foundation” means a structure principally of steel, concrete, or steel and concrete with a base which rests on the seabed either due to its own weight with or without added ballast or additional skirts and associated equipment including scour protection, J-tubes, corrosion protection systems and access platforms and equipment;\n“HAT” means highest astronomical tide;\n“high order unexploded ordnance clearance” means an unexploded ordnance clearance method which intentionally seeks to detonate the unexploded ordnance;\n“inter-array cables” means the cables linking the wind turbine generators to each other and to the offshore substation platforms;\n“interconnector cables” means the cables linking the offshore substation platforms to each other;\n“jacket foundation” means a steel jacket/lattice-type structure constructed of steel, fixed to the seabed with steel pin piles or steel suction buckets and associated equipment including scour protection, J-tubes, corrosion protection systems and access platforms and equipment;\n“LAT” means lowest astronomical tide;\n“layout principles” means the layout development principles contained within Table 3.7 of the environmental statement project description referred to as document F1.3 in Schedule 15;\n“LiDAR” means a light detection and ranging system used to measure weather and sea conditions;\n“licensed marine activities” means those activities detailed in paragraph 2 Part 1 of Schedule 14;\n“licensing authority” means Natural Resources Body for Wales acting on behalf of the Welsh Ministers pursuant to powers under the 2009 Act or any successor of that function;\n“low order unexploded ordnance clearance” means an unexploded ordnance clearance method which falls within the scope of the methods assessed by the environmental statement and which does not seek to detonate the unexploded ordnance;\n“maintain” includes works to:\n(a)inspect, upkeep, repair, adjust or alter the authorised scheme; and\n(b)remove, reconstruct or replace any part of the authorised scheme,\nprovided that such works are undertaken in accordance with condition 10 and do not give rise to any materially new or materially different environmental effects to those identified in the environmental statement; and any derivative of “maintain” is to be construed accordingly;\n“marine enforcement officer” means an officer acting on behalf of Welsh Ministers in relation to Welsh Minister’s enforcement responsibilities for this marine licence and “MEO” must be construed accordingly;\n“MCA” means the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, the executive agency of the Department for Transport;\n“measures to minimise disturbance to marine mammals and rafting birds from transiting vessels” means the document certified as the measures to minimise disturbance to marine mammals and rafting birds from transiting vessels by the Secretary of State under article 41 for the purposes of this Order;\n“NRW” means Natural Resources Body for Wales or any successor body to its functions;\n“offshore in-principle monitoring plan” means the document certified as the offshore in-principle monitoring plan by the Secretary of State under rticle 41 for the purposes of this Order;\n“offshore order limits and grid coordinates plan” means the document certified as the offshore order limits and grid coordinates plan by the Secretary of State under article 41 for the purposes of this Order;\n“offshore substation platform” means a structure above LAT and attached to the seabed by means of a foundation, with one or more decks and open with modular equipment or fully clad, containing—\n(a)electrical equipment required to switch, transform or convert electricity generated at the wind turbine generators to a higher voltage and provide reactive power compensation, including high voltage power transformers, high voltage switchgear and busbars, substation auxiliary systems and low voltage distribution, instrumentation, metering equipment and control systems, standby generators, shunt reactors, auxiliary and uninterruptible power supply systems; and\n(b)accommodation, storage, workshop auxiliary equipment and facilities for operating, maintaining and controlling the substation or wind turbine generators, including navigation, aviation and safety marking and lighting, systems for vessel access and retrieval, cranes, potable water supply, black water separation, stores, fuels and spares, communications systems and control hub facilities and other associated equipment and facilities;\n“offshore surface structures” means offshore substation platforms and wind turbine generators;\n“Order limits” means the limits shown on the offshore order limits and grid coordinates plan certified as the offshore order limits and grid co-ordinates plan by the Secretary of State under article 41 for the purposes of this Order within which the authorised project may be carried out;\n“outline fisheries liaison and co-existence plan” means the document certified as the outline fisheries liaison and co-existence plan by the Secretary of State under article 41 for the purposes of this Order;\n“outline marine mammal mitigation protocol” means the document certified as the outline marine mammal mitigation protocol by the Secretary of State under article 41 for the purposes of this Order;\n“outline offshore operations and maintenance plan” means the document certified as the outline offshore operations and maintenance plan by the Secretary of State under article 41 for the purposes of this Order;\n“outline offshore written scheme of investigation for archaeology and protocol for archaeological discoveries” means the document certified as the outline offshore written scheme of investigation for archaeology and protocol for archaeological discoveries by the Secretary of State under article 41 for the purposes of this Order;\n“outline onshore written scheme of investigation” means the document certified as the outline onshore written scheme of investigation by the Secretary of State under article 41 for the purposes of this Order;\n“outline underwater sound management strategy” means the document certified as the outline underwater sound management strategy by the Secretary of State under article 41 for the purposes of this Order;\n“outline vessel traffic management plan” means the document certified as the outline vessel traffic management plan by the Secretary of State under article 41 for the purposes of this Order;\n“operation” means the undertaking of activities authorised by this Order which are not part of the construction, commissioning or decommissioning of the authorised scheme;\n“pin piles” means steel or concrete cylindrical piles driven and/or drilled into the seabed to secure jacket foundations;\n“scour protection” means measures to prevent loss of seabed sediment around any structure placed in or on the seabed including by the use of bagged solutions, filled with grout or other materials, protective aprons, mattresses with or without frond devices, and rock and gravel placement;\n“statutory historic body” means CADW, Welsh Archaeological Trust, or Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, or the relevant successor bodies;\n“statutory nature conservation body” means the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (or the relevant successor body) or NRW;\n“suction bucket jacket foundation” means a tubular steel structure which partially or fully penetrates the seabed and associated equipment, including scour protection, J-tubes, corrosion protection systems and access platforms and equipment;\n“Trinity House” means the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond;\n“UKHO” means the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office of Admiralty Way, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 2DN;\n“undertaker” means Mona Offshore Wind Limited (company registration number 13497266) whose registered office address is Chertsey Road, Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex, United Kingdom, TW16 7BP;\n“vessel” means every description of vessel, however propelled or moved, and includes a non-displacement craft, a personal watercraft, a seaplane on the surface of the water, a hydrofoil vessel, a hovercraft or any other amphibious vehicle and any other thing constructed or adapted for movement through, in, on or over water and which is at the time in, on or over water; and\n“wind turbine generator” means a structure comprising a tower, rotor with three blades connected at the hub, nacelle and ancillary electrical and other equipment which may include J-tube(s), transition piece, access and rest platforms, access ladders, boat access systems, corrosion protection systems, fenders and maintenance equipment, helicopter landing facilities and other associated equipment including communications equipment, fixed to a foundation or transition piece.\n(2) In this licence a reference to any statute, order, regulation or similar instrument is a reference to a statute, order, regulation or instrument as amended by any subsequent statute, order, regulation or instrument or as contained in any subsequent re-enactment.\n(3) In this licence, unless otherwise indicated—\n(a) all times are Greenwich Mean Time (“GMT”);\n(b) all coordinates are latitude and longitude decimal degrees.\n(4) Unless otherwise stated or agreed with the licensing authority, all notifications must be sent by the undertaker to the licensing authority. Except where otherwise notified in writing by the relevant organisation, the addresses for correspondence for the purposes of this Schedule are—\n(a) Natural Resources Wales Marine Licensing Team\nEmail: marinelicensing@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk\nTel: 0300 065 3000\nWelsh Government Offices\nCathays Park\nKing Edward VII Avenue\nCardiff\nCF10 3NQ\n(b) Maritime and Coastguard Agency\nUK Technical Services Navigation\nSpring Place\n105 Commercial Road\nSouthampton\nSO15 1EG\nEmail: navigationsafety@mcga.gov.uk\n(c) Trinity House\nTower Hill\nLondon\nEC3N 4DH\nTel: 020 7481 6900\nEmail: navigation@trinityhouse.co.uk\n(d) United Kingdom Hydrographic Office\nAdmiralty Way\nTaunton\nSomerset\nTA1 2DN\nTel: 01823 337 900\n(e) Welsh Government Marine Enforcement Officers\nWelsh Government\nSuite 3\nCedar Court\nHaven’s Head Business Park\nMilford Haven\nPembrokeshire\nSA73 3LS\nTel: 03000253500\nEmail:wfmccmpc@gov.wales\n(f) Civil Aviation Authority\nAviation House\nBeehive Ringroad\nCrawley\nWest Sussex",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 1 in force at 28.7.2025, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 20. Section 105 was amended by section 69 of the Energy Act 2008 (c. 32)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2009 c. 23."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:13:09.870071+00:00"
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  "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."
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