{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/springwell-solar-farm-order-2026/schedule-15/paragraph-68",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2026/419",
  "legislation_title": "The Springwell Solar Farm Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/springwell-solar-farm-order-2026",
  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/68",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Part of this Schedule—\n“acceptable credit provider” means a bank or financial institution with a credit rating that is not lower than: (i) “A-” if the rating is assigned by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group or Fitch Ratings; and “A3” if the rating is assigned by Moody’s Investors Services Inc.;\n“acceptable insurance” means general third party liability insurance effected and maintained by the undertaker with a combined property damage and bodily injury limit of indemnity of not less than a sum to be notified by NGET and agreed in writing between the parties. Evidence of that insurance must be provided to NGET on request. Such insurance shall be maintained (a) during the construction period of the specified works; and (b) after the construction period of the specified works in respect of any use and maintenance of the specified works by or on behalf of the undertaker and arranged with an insurer whose security/credit rating meets the same requirements as an “acceptable credit provider”, such insurance shall include (without limitation)—\n(a)a waiver of subrogation and an indemnity to principal clause in favour of NGET;\n(b)pollution liability for third party property damage and third party bodily damage arising from any pollution/contamination event with a (sub)limit of indemnity of not less than a sum to be notified by NGET and agreed in writing between the parties;\n“acceptable security” means either—\n(a)a parent company guarantee from a parent company in favour of NGET to cover the undertaker’s liability to NGET to a total liability cap in an amount to be notified to the undertaker by NGET and agreed in writing between the parties (in a form reasonably satisfactory to NGET and where required by NGET, accompanied with a legal opinion confirming the due capacity and authorisation of the parent company to enter into and be bound by the terms of such guarantee); or\n(b)a bank bond or letter of credit from an acceptable credit provider in favour of NGET to cover the undertaker’s liability to NGET for an amount to be notified to the undertaker by NGET and agreed in writing between the parties (in a form reasonably satisfactory to NGET);\n“alternative apparatus” means appropriate alternative apparatus to the satisfaction of NGET to enable NGET to fulfil its statutory functions in a manner no less efficient than previously;\n“apparatus” means any electric lines or electrical plant as defined in the 1989 Act, belonging to or maintained by NGET together with any replacement apparatus and such other apparatus constructed pursuant to the Order that becomes operational apparatus of NGET for the purposes of transmission, distribution and/or supply and includes any structure in which apparatus is or will be lodged or which gives or will give access to apparatus;\n“authorised works” has the same meaning as is given to the term “authorised development” in article 2 (interpretation) of this 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;\n“commence” and “commencement” in this Part of this Schedule will include any below ground surveys, monitoring, ground work operations or the receipt and erection of construction plant and equipment;\n“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;\n“functions” includes powers and duties;\n“grid connection works” means that part of the authorised development identified in work numbers 5, 7, 8 and 9 (to the extent work numbers 7, 8 and 9 are necessary in connection with work number 5) and carried out in the Navenby Substation area;\n“ground mitigation scheme” means a scheme approved by NGET (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) setting out the necessary measures (if any) for a ground subsidence event;\n“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 NGET’s approval a ground mitigation scheme;\n“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;\n“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;\n“incentive deduction” means any incentive deduction NGET receives under its electricity transmission licence which is caused by an event on its transmission system that causes electricity not to be supplied to a demand customer and which arises as a result of the authorised works;\n“maintain” and “maintenance” will include the ability and right to do any of the following in relation to any apparatus or alternative apparatus of NGET: construct, use, repair, alter, inspect, renew or remove the apparatus;\n“National Grid Navenby Substation” means the proposed substation at Heath Lane, Navenby, LN5 0AY, owned and operated by NGET which NGET will seek planning permission for under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990;\n“Navenby Substation area” means the land shown in the land plans as plots 11/1, 11/3 and 11/4 and shaded grey on the Navenby Substation area plan within which NGET intends to construct the National Grid Navenby Substation;\n“Navenby Substation area plan” means the document of that name identified in the table at Schedule 13 (documents and plans to be certified) and which is certified by the Secretary of State as the Navenby Substation area plan for the purposes of this Order;\n“NGET” means National Grid Electricity Transmission Plc (Company Number 2366977) whose registered office is at 1-3 Strand, London, WC2N 5EH or any successor as a licence holder within the meaning of Part 1 of the 1989 Act;\n“NGESO” means as defined in the STC;\n“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;\n“parent company” means a parent company of the undertaker acceptable to and which shall have been approved by NGET acting reasonably;\n“specified works” means any of the authorised works or activities undertaken in association with the authorised development which—\n(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 79(2) or otherwise; and/or\n(b)may in any way adversely affect any apparatus the removal of which has not been required by the undertaker under paragraph 79(2) or otherwise; and/or\n(c)includes any of the activities that are referred to in development near overhead lines EN43-8 and HSE’s guidance note 6 “Avoidance of Danger from Overhead Lines”.\n“STC” means the System Operator Transmission Owner Code prepared by the electricity transmission owners and NGESO as modified from time to time;\n“STC claims” means any claim made under the STC against NGET arising out of or in connection with the de-energisation (whereby no electricity can flow to or from the relevant system through the generator or interconnector’s equipment) of a generator or interconnector party solely as a result of the de-energisation of plant and apparatus forming part of NGET’s transmission system which arises as a result of the authorised works; and\n“transmission owner” means as defined in the STC.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 68 in force at 30.4.2026, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/419/schedule/15/paragraph/68",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:02:38.918571+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."
}