{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mona-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-14/paragraph-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mona-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-14/paragraph-24.json",
  "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/24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Construction monitoring",
  "text": "(1) The undertaker must, in discharging condition 17(1)(c), submit details (which accord with the offshore in-principle monitoring plan) for approval in writing by the licensing authority in consultation with the relevant statutory nature conservation bodies of any proposed construction monitoring, including methodologies and timings, to be carried out during the construction of the authorised scheme. The monitoring proposals must specify each monitoring proposal’s objectives.\n(2) In the event that driven or part-driven pile foundations are proposed, such monitoring must include measurements of underwater sound generated by the installation of the first four piled foundations of each piled foundation type to be installed unless the licensing authority otherwise agrees in writing.\n(3) The undertaker must carry out the monitoring approved under paragraph (1), including any further underwater sound monitoring required in writing by the licensing authority, and provide the agreed reports in the agreed format in accordance with the agreed timetable, unless otherwise agreed in writing with the licensing authority in consultation with the relevant statutory nature conservation bodies.\n(4) The results of the initial underwater sound measurements monitored in accordance with paragraph (2) must be provided to the licensing authority within six weeks of the installation of the first four piled foundations. The assessment of this report by the licensing authority will determine whether any further underwater sound monitoring is required. If, in the reasonable opinion of the licensing authority in consultation with the statutory nature conservation body, the assessment shows significantly different underwater sound modelling results to those predicted and assessed in the environmental statement or failures in mitigation, all piling activity must cease until an update to the marine mammal mitigation protocol and further monitoring requirements have been agreed.\n(5) The undertaker must carry out the surveys specified in the monitoring plan in accordance with that plan, including any further underwater sound monitoring required in writing by the licensing authority under paragraph (4), unless otherwise agreed in writing by the licensing authority in consultation with the statutory nature conservation body.\n(6) In the event that piled foundations are proposed to be used, the details submitted in accordance with the marine mammal mitigation protocol must include proposals for monitoring marine mammals.\n(7) The undertaker must in discharging condition 17(1)(k) submit a vessel traffic monitoring strategy, in accordance with the offshore in-principle monitoring plan, including the provision of reports on the results of that monitoring at the end of each year of the construction period to the licensing authority, MCA and Trinity House and undertake construction monitoring in accordance with the vessel traffic monitoring strategy.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 14 para. 24 in force at 28.7.2025, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/870/schedule/14/paragraph/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:13:09.870071+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."
}