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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/preesall-underground-gas-storage-facility-order-2015/schedule-9/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1561",
  "legislation_title": "The Preesall Underground Gas Storage Facility Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/preesall-underground-gas-storage-facility-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“the 1999 Regulations” means the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 1999;\n“the 2017 Regulations” means the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017; ;\n“132kV electrical circuits” means the works described in Work Nos. 17A to 17C of Schedule 1;\n“aftercare” means monitoring, maintenance and management of land within the Order limits following its restoration;\n“brine discharge pipeline” means the works described in Work Nos. 16A to 16L of Schedule 1;\n“commence” means begin to carry out any material operation (as defined in section 155 of the 2008 Act) other than operations consisting of site clearance, demolition work, archaeological investigations, investigations for the purpose of assessing ground and geological conditions, remedial work in respect of any contamination or other adverse ground conditions, diversion and laying of services, erection of any temporary means of enclosure, the temporary display of site notices or advertisements and “commencement” and “commenced” shall be construed accordingly;\n“competent authority” means the Health and Safety Executive and Environment Agency acting jointly;\n“construction phase” means the period during which works to construct the authorised development are carried out;\n“construction work” means construction works undertaken during the construction phase;\n“decommissioned cavern” means an operational cavern decommissioned pursuant to paragraph 32 or 33;\n“decommissioning” means the decommissioning of operational caverns, structures, hoardings and other infrastructure comprised in the authorised development when it is no longer required for operational use or, as the case may be, upon the permanent cessation of operation of the authorised development;\n“decommissioning phase” means the period during which the authorised development is decommissioned following permanent cessation of operation of the authorised development;\n“European protected species” has the same meaning as in regulation 42 of the 2017 Regulations;\n“European site” has the same meaning as it has in regulation 8(1) of the 2017 Regulations and includes the Morecambe Bay site designated under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, signed in Ramsar, Iran in 1971, ratified by the United Kingdom in 1976 and known as the “Ramsar Convention”;\n“existing mineworking” means a mineworking which existed prior to the making of this Order;\n“Flints Caravan Park plan” means the drawing dated September 2012 and given drawing reference A-9100-4001 certified as the Flints Caravan Park plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;\n“Harbour Village plan” means the drawing dated September 2012 and given drawing reference A-9100-4003 certified as the Harbour Village plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;\n“Kneps Farm Holiday Park plan” means the drawing dated September 2012 and given drawing reference A-9100-4002 certified as the Kneps Farm Holiday Park plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of this Order;\n“mudstone” means the members of the Kirkham Mudstone formation known as the Coat Walls Mudstone Member (above the Preesall halite deposit) and the Thornton Mudstone Member (beneath the Preesall halite deposit), belonging to the Mercia Mudstone Group, characterised by a distinctive sequence of alternately red-brown and grey-green well bedded mudstones with many thin intercalations of siltstone and dolomitic siltstone and more particularly described on the Geological Survey of Great Britain (England and Wales) Sheet 66, 1:50,000 Series, Solid and Drift Edition, of the British Geological Survey Classification entitled “The Geology of the country around Blackpool” dated 1990 and further described in the accompanying British Geological Survey Sheet Memoir 66;\n“NTS interconnector pipeline” means the works described in Work Nos. 20A to 20H of Schedule 1 (authorised development);\n“operational phase” means the period during which the authorised development is in operational use as an underground gas storage facility;\n“permanent cessation” means—\n(a)where it is referred to in the context of a part of the authorised development the cessation of operation of that part in circumstances that at the time of such cessation it is the undertaker’s understanding and expectation that that part of the authorised development will not be returned to operational use at any point in the future; and\n(b)where it is referred to in the context of the authorised development as a whole the cessation of operation of the authorised development in circumstances that at the time of such cessation it is the undertaker’s understanding and expectation that the authorised development as a whole will not be returned to operational use at any point in the future;\n“reaming” means the process used to increase a pilot hole to the required size;\n“restoration” means the restoration of land within the Order limits for future use after permanent cessation of the operation of the authorised development;\n“stage” means a defined section or part of the authorised development, the extent of which is shown in a scheme submitted to and approved by the relevant planning authority pursuant to paragraph 3 (stages of authorised development);\n“wet rockhead areas” means those parts of the subsoil of the Order limits shown on Figure 5.7 (Distribution of known wet rockhead (BGS data)) in the geology summary report where what was formerly the Preesall halite deposit has been dissolved by groundwater circulation such that mudstone strata overlying what was formerly the Preesall halite deposit have collapsed into it.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 para. 1 substituted (30.11.2017) by The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1012), reg. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 59(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 para. 1 substituted (30.11.2017) by The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1012), reg. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 59(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 para. 1 substituted (30.11.2017) by The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1012), reg. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 59(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 1 in force at 7.8.2015, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/743."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/490."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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