# The Morecambe Offshore Windfarm Generation Assets Order 2025, Article 16: Approvals

Extent: E+W+S

(1) Where, under any of the requirements set out in Schedule 2, any condition in Part 2 of Schedule 6, or any provision in Schedules 3, 6 or 7, the approval (which shall include any confirmation or agreement) or notification of or to the Secretary of State or another organisation or body is required, that approval or notification must be given in writing.
(2) With respect to any approval which requires the authorised project to be carried out in accordance with the details approved by the Secretary of State or another organisation or body, the approved details must be carried out as approved unless an amendment or variation is previously agreed by the Secretary of State or that other organisation or body in writing in accordance with paragraph (3).
(3) Any amendments to or variations of the approved details must be in accordance with the principles and assessments set out in the environmental statement. Agreement to amendments or variations may only be given where it has been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Secretary of State or that other organisation or body that the proposed amendments to the approved details are unlikely to give rise to any materially new or materially different environmental effects from those assessed in the environmental statement.
(4) The approved details must be taken to include any amendments that have subsequently been approved by the Secretary of State or that other organisation or body.
(5) Where any approval or notification is required in writing this includes by electronic transmission.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1366/article/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/morecambe-offshore-windfarm-generation-assets-order-2025/article-16
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