# The Mona Offshore Wind Farm Order 2025, Paragraph 12: Notifications and inspections

Extent: E+W

(1) The undertaker must ensure that—
(a) a copy of this marine licence (issued as part of the grant of the Order) and any subsequent amendments or revisions to it is provided to—
(i) all agents and contractors notified to the licensing authority in accordance with condition 22; and
(ii) the masters and transport managers responsible for the vessels notified to the licensing authority in accordance with condition 22.
(2) Only those persons and vessels notified to the licensing authority in accordance with condition 22 are permitted to carry out the licensed marine activities.
(3) Copies of this marine licence must also be available for inspection at the following locations—
(a) the undertaker’s registered address;
(b) any site office located at or adjacent to the construction site and used by the undertaker or its agents and contractors responsible for the loading, transportation or deposit of the authorised deposits; and
(c) on board each vessel and at the office of any transport manager with responsibility for vessels from which authorised deposits or removals are to be made.
(4) The information referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) must be available for inspection by officers appropriately authorised by the licensing authority and authorised MEOs at the locations set out in sub-paragraph (3)(b).
(5) The undertaker must provide access, and if necessary appropriate transportation, to the offshore construction site or any other associated works or vessels to facilitate any inspection that the licensing authority or the MEO considers necessary to inspect the works during the construction and operation of the authorised scheme.
(6) The undertaker must inform the licensing authority and the MEO in writing at least 10 days prior to the commencement of the authorised scheme or any part of them and within 10 days of the completion of the construction of the authorised scheme.
(7) The undertaker must inform the Kingfisher Information Service of Seafish by email to kingfisher@seafish.co.uk of details of the vessel routes, timings and locations relating to the construction of the authorised scheme or relevant part—
(a) at least 14 days prior to the commencement of licenced marine activities, for inclusion in the Kingfisher Fortnightly Bulletin and offshore hazard awareness data;
(b) as soon as reasonably practicable and no later than 24 hours following completion of the construction of the authorised scheme,
and confirmation of notification must be provided to the licensing authority within five days.
(8) The undertaker must ensure that a local notification to mariners is issued at least 14 days prior to any of the non-intrusive pre-construction surveys, unexploded ordnance surveys and low order unexploded ordnance clearance taking place and prior to the commencement of the authorised scheme or any part thereof advising of its start date and the expected vessel routes from the construction ports to the relevant location. Copies of all notices must be provided to the licensing authority, MCA, Trinity House and UKHO within five days of the notifications being sent.
(9) The undertaker must ensure that local notifications to mariners are updated and reissued at regular intervals during the pre-construction surveys, unexploded ordnance surveys low order unexploded ordnance clearance and construction activities and at least five days before any planned operations and maintenance works (or otherwise agreed) and supplemented with VHF radio broadcasts agreed with the MCA in accordance with the construction programme approved under condition 17(1)(b). Copies of all notices must be provided to the licensing authority, and UKHO within five days of the notification being sent.
(10) The undertaker must notify UKHO within 14 days of completion of the construction of the authorised scheme or any part thereof in order that all necessary amendments to nautical charts are made. Copies of all notices must be provided to the licensing authority, the MEO, and MCA within five days of the notification being sent.
(11) In case of damage to, or destruction or decay of, the authorised scheme or any part thereof, excluding the exposure of cables and cable faults, the undertaker must as soon as reasonably practicable and no later than 24 hours following the undertaker becoming aware of any such damage, destruction or decay, notify the licensing authority, the MEO, MCA, Trinity House, the Kingfisher Information Service of Seafish, UKHO and the regional fisheries contact.
(12) In case of buried cables becoming exposed on or above the seabed, the undertaker must within three days following identification of exposure of cables or cable faults, notify regional fisheries contacts and inform the Kingfisher Information Service of Seafish of the location and extent of exposure or cable faults. Copies of all such notices must be provided to the licensing authority, the MEO, MCA, Trinity House, and UKHO within five days of the notification being sent.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/870/schedule/14/paragraph/12 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/mona-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-14/paragraph-12
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