{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/morecambe-offshore-windfarm-generation-assets-order-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/morecambe-offshore-windfarm-generation-assets-order-2025/schedule-6/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/1366",
  "legislation_title": "The Morecambe Offshore Windfarm Generation Assets Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/morecambe-offshore-windfarm-generation-assets-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Post-construction monitoring",
  "text": "(1) The undertaker must, in discharging condition 9(1)(c) submit details (which accord with the in principle monitoring plan) for approval by the MMO in consultation with the relevant statutory nature conservation body of proposed post-construction monitoring, including methodologies and timings, and a proposed format, content and timings for providing reports on the results.\n(2) The monitoring proposals must specify each monitoring proposal’s objectives and explain how it will assist in either informing a useful and valid comparison with the pre-construction position or will enable the validation or otherwise of key predictions in the environmental statement (or both).\n(3) The post-construction monitoring referred to in sub-paragraph (1) must have due regard to, but not be limited to, the need to—\n(a) undertake a full sea floor coverage swath-bathymetry survey that meets the requirements of MGN654 and its annexes, and side scan sonar, of the area(s) within the Order limits in which construction works were carried out to assess any changes in bedform topography and such further monitoring or assessment as may be agreed to ensure that cables have been buried or protected; and\n(b) undertake post-construction vessel traffic monitoring in accordance with the in principle monitoring plan, including the provision of reports on the results of that monitoring to the MMO, MCA and Trinity House.\n(4) The undertaker must carry out the monitoring agreed under sub-paragraph (1) and provide the agreed reports to the MMO in the agreed format in accordance with the agreed timetable.\n(5) Following the installation of cables, details of cable monitoring required under 9(1)(d) must be updated with the results of the post installation surveys. The statement must be implemented until the authorised project is decommissioned and reviewed as specified within the statement, following cable burial surveys, or as instructed by the MMO.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 6 Pt. 2 para. 16(3)(a) substituted (8.6.2026) by The Morecambe Offshore Windfarm Generation Assets (Correction) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/608), art. 1, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 6 Pt. 2 para. 16 in force at 23.12.2025, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/1366/schedule/6/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:07:56.229704+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."
}