{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-falls-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026/schedule-15/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-falls-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026/schedule-15/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/567",
  "legislation_title": "The North Falls Offshore Wind Farm Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/north-falls-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026",
  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Marine Recovery Fund",
  "text": "(1) Where the undertaker elects to make a Marine Recovery Fund payment under paragraph 2(1)(a) or 2(1)(b), no operation of any wind turbine generator forming part of the authorised development may begin until—\n(a) the Marine Recovery Fund payment has been quantified and the undertaker has entered into a contract to make a Marine Recovery Fund payment wholly or partly, to provide compensation for the AEoI (or an agreed proportion thereof);\n(b) an implementation and monitoring plan has been submitted to and approved by the Secretary of State; and\n(c) the full payment or the first payment in a series of instalments in accordance with the contract in sub-paragraph (a) has been made by the undertaker and the Secretary of State has confirmed in writing that such payment fulfils the requirement for compensation measures.\n(2) If the Marine Recovery Fund payment is made wholly in substitution for the compensation measures under sub-paragraph 1(a) then, following receipt of the approvals under sub-paragraph (1) the undertaker shall not be required to implement any further measures to compensate for the AEoI pursuant to this Part of this Schedule but this does not obviate the undertaker from its obligation to continue to comply with any payment schedule or any other conditions that form part of the contract entered into by the undertaker under sub-paragraph 1(a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/567/schedule/15/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:00:48.162639+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."
}