# The Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm Order 2026, Paragraph 97: Interpretation


In this Part of this Schedule—
“1991 Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991;
“alternative apparatus” means appropriate alternative apparatus to the satisfaction of Cadent to enable Cadent to fulfil its statutory functions in a manner no less efficient than previously;
“apparatus” means any gas mains, pipelines, pipes, pressure governors, ventilators, cathodic protection (including transformed rectifiers and any associated groundbeds or cables), cables, marker posts, block valves, hydrogen above ground installations or other apparatus belonging to, or maintained by, Cadent for the purposes of Cadent’s undertaking together with any replacement apparatus and such other apparatus constructed pursuant to this Order that becomes operational apparatus of Cadent for the purposes of Cadent’s undertaking and includes any structure in which apparatus is or will be lodged or which gives or will give access to apparatus;
“authorised works” has the same meaning as is given to the term “authorised development” in article 2(1) of the Order and includes any associated development authorised by the Order and for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule includes the use and maintenance of the authorised works and construction of any works authorised by this Schedule;
“Cadent” means Cadent Gas Limited (Company Number 10080864) whose registered office is at Cadent, Pilot Way, Ansty, Coventry, England, CV7 9JU and includes its successors in title or any successor as a gas transporter within the meaning of Part 1 of the Gas Act 1986;
“Cadent’s undertaking” means the rights, duties and obligations of Cadent as a public gas transporter within the meaning of Section 7 of the Gas Act 1986;
“commence” and “commencement” in this Part of this Schedule include any below ground surveys, monitoring, work operations, remedial work in respect of any contamination or other adverse ground condition, the receipt and erection of construction plant and equipment, and intrusive investigations for the purpose of assessing ground conditions;
“deed of consent” means a deed of consent, crossing agreement, deed of variation or new deed of grant agreed between the parties acting reasonably in order to vary or replace existing easements, agreements, enactments and other such interests so as to secure land rights and interests as are necessary to carry out, maintain, operate and use the apparatus in a manner consistent with the terms of this Part of this Schedule;
“facilities and rights” for construction and for maintenance include any appropriate working areas required to reasonably and safely undertake that construction or maintenance, and any necessary rights of access;
“functions” includes powers and duties;
“ground mitigation scheme” means a scheme approved by Cadent (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) setting out the necessary measures (if any) for a ground subsidence event;
“ground monitoring scheme” means a scheme for monitoring ground subsidence which sets out the apparatus which is to be subject to such monitoring, the extent of land to be monitored, the manner in which ground levels are to be monitored, the timescales of any monitoring activities and the extent of ground subsidence which, if exceeded, must require the undertaker to submit for Cadent’s approval a ground mitigation scheme;
“ground subsidence event” means any ground subsidence identified by the monitoring activities set out in the ground monitoring scheme that has exceeded the level described in the ground monitoring scheme as requiring a ground mitigation scheme;
“in” in a context referring to apparatus or alternative apparatus in land includes a reference to apparatus or alternative apparatus under, over, across, along or upon such land;
“maintain” and “maintenance” include the ability and right to do any of the following in relation to any apparatus or alternative apparatus of Cadent: retain, lay, construct, inspect, protect, access, enlarge, replace, renew, decommission or render unusable or remove the apparatus;
“plan” or “plans” include all designs, drawings, specifications, method statements, soil reports, programmes, calculations, risk assessments and other documents that are reasonably necessary properly and sufficiently to describe and assess the works to be executed;
“rights” includes restrictive covenants and, in relation to decommissioned apparatus, the surrender of rights, release of liabilities and transfer of decommissioned apparatus; and
“specified works” means any of the authorised works or activities undertaken in association with the authorised works which—
(a) will or may be situated over, or within 15 metres measured in any direction of any apparatus the removal of which has not been required by the undertaker under paragraph 6(2) or otherwise;
(b) may in any way adversely affect any apparatus the removal of which has not been required by the undertaker under paragraph 6(2) or otherwise; or
(c) include any of the activities that are referred to in CD/SP/SSW/22 Cadent’s policies for safe working in proximity to gas apparatus Specification for safe working in the vicinity of Cadent Assets.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/138/schedule/18/paragraph/97 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/outer-dowsing-offshore-wind-farm-order-2026/schedule-18/paragraph-97
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