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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/mona-offshore-wind-farm-order-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-14",
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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/2/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Construction hours",
  "text": "(1) Except as otherwise agreed in the code of construction practice and subject to sub-paragraphs (2) to (4), construction of the onshore works and heavy goods vehicle traffic movements arriving or departing from the site of the relevant work may take place only between the hours of 0700 and 1900 from Monday to Friday and 0700 to 1300 on Saturday, with no activity on Sundays or bank holidays.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), construction of the onshore works and heavy goods vehicle traffic movements arriving or departing from the site of the relevant work may take place outside the hours specified in sub-paragraph (1) for certain identified activities including—\n(a) where continuous periods of construction are required, for works such as concrete pouring and finishing, electrical circuit pulling and jointing and testing, trenchless installation techniques, and dewatering pumps;\n(b) for the delivery and unloading of abnormal loads;\n(c) for the landfall works;\n(d) for any other time-critical element of the onshore works;\n(e) emergency works; and\n(f) mobilisation activities, which may take place one hour immediately prior to and one hour immediately after the hours specified in sub-paragraph (1).\n(3) Except as provided in sub-paragraph (4) and in relation to emergency works, the undertaker must notify the relevant planning authority of all construction works and activities which are to be undertaken outside the hours specified in sub-paragraph (1) by giving at least 48 hours notice in advance of those works and activities and those works and activities must not be undertaken outside the hours specified in sub-paragraph (1) until the relevant planning authority has agreed.\n(4) In respect of trenchless installation techniques, where continuous 24-hour working is required and has been assessed in the environmental statement, the undertaker must notify the relevant planning authority in advance by giving at least 48 hours’ notice of such works.\n(5) In the event of an emergency, notification of that emergency must be given to the relevant planning authority and the relevant highway authority as soon as reasonably practicable.\n(6) For the purposes of this requirement “emergency” means a situation where, if the relevant action is not taken, there will be adverse health, safety, security or environmental consequences that in the reasonable opinion of the undertaker would outweigh the adverse effects to the public (whether individuals, classes or generally as the case may be) of taking that action.\n(7) For the purposes of this requirement “mobilisation activities” include personnel briefings, inspections, tool-box talks, inductions, health and safety works, deliveries excluding heavy goods vehicle movements, movement to place of work, general preparation and site maintenance work but does not include operation of heavy machinery or operation of generators or flood lights.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 14 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/2/paragraph/14",
    "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."
}