{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/triton-knoll-electrical-system-order-2016/schedule-9/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/triton-knoll-electrical-system-order-2016/schedule-9/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/880",
  "legislation_title": "The Triton Knoll Electrical System Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/triton-knoll-electrical-system-order-2016",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Pre-construction monitoring and surveys",
  "text": "(1) The undertaker must submit details for written approval by the MMO after consultation with the statutory nature conservation body of—\n(a) proposed pre-construction surveys including methodologies and timings; and\n(b) a proposed format and content for a pre-construction baseline report.\n(2) The survey proposals must specify the objectives of each survey and explain how the survey will assist in either informing a useful and valid comparison with the post-construction position and/or will enable the validation or otherwise of key predictions in the environmental statement.\n(3) The baseline report proposals must ensure that the outcome of the agreed surveys together with existing data and reports are drawn together to present a valid statement of the pre-construction position, with any limitations, and must make clear what post-construction comparison is intended and the justification for this being required.\n(4) The pre-construction surveys referred to in paragraph (1) must, unless otherwise agreed with the MMO, have due regard to, but not be limited to, the need to undertake—\n(a) appropriate surveys to determine the location, extent and composition of any Annex 1 habitat biogenic reef features (Mytilus edulis and/or Sabellaria spinulosa) within the Inner Dowsing, Race Bank and North Ridge Site of Community Importance or biogenic reef features in whole or in part inside the areas within the offshore Order limits in which it is proposed to carry out construction works;\n(b) swath bathymetric surveys, to International Hydrographic Organization Order IA standard, and side-scan sonar surveys of the areas within the offshore Order limits in which it is proposed to carry out construction works, the data and survey reports to be provided to the UKHO; and\n(c) 1 high-resolution bathymetric and side-scan sonar survey of the areas within the offshore Order limits in which it is proposed to carry out construction works including a 500-metre buffer area around the site of each works. This should include the identification of sites of historic or archaeological interest in accordance with the written scheme of archaeological investigation.\n(5) The undertaker must carry out the surveys agreed under paragraph (1) and provide the baseline report to the MMO in the agreed format in accordance with the agreed timetable, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the MMO after consultation with the statutory nature conservation body.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 12 in force at 27.9.2016, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/880/schedule/9/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:20:26.172707+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."
}