{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-grid-hinkley-point-c-connection-project-order-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-grid-hinkley-point-c-connection-project-order-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/49",
  "legislation_title": "The National Grid (Hinkley Point C Connection Project) Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-grid-hinkley-point-c-connection-project-order-2016",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Construction hours",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraphs (2) to (4) construction work must take place only between 0700 and 1900 Mondays to Fridays and between 0800 and 1700 on Saturdays and Sundays (the “core working hours”).\n(2) Piling operations must take place only between 0800 and 1700 hours Mondays to Fridays and 0900 to 1400 on Saturdays.\n(3) Working on a consecutive Saturday and Sunday may take place only on two out of any four consecutive weekends in each relevant local authority area.\n(4) The following operations may take place outside the core working hours referred to in sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) the jointing of underground cables with the exception of cable cutting which will take place only during core working hours;\n(b) the installation and removal of conductors, pilot wires and associated protective netting across highways, railway lines or watercourses;\n(c) the completion of operations commenced during the core working hours which cannot safely be stopped;\n(d) any highway works requested by the relevant highway authority to be undertaken on a Saturday or a Sunday or outside the core working hours;\n(e) oil processing of transformers or reactors in substation sites;\n(f) the testing or commissioning of any electrical plant installed as part of the authorised development; and\n(g) the completion of works delayed or held up by severe weather conditions which disrupted or interrupted normal construction activities.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/49/schedule/3/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:28:15.566000+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."
}