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The Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014

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15.—(1) The undertaker may use any watercourse or any public sewer or drain for the drainage of water in connection with the carrying out construction or maintenance of the authorised project and for that purpose may lay down, take up and alter pipes and may, on any land within the Order limits, make openings into, and connections with, the watercourse, public sewer or drain.

(2) Any dispute arising from the making of connections to or the use of a public sewer or drain by the undertaker pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be determined as if it were a dispute under section 106 of the Water Industry Act 1991(1) (right to communicate with public sewers).

(3) The undertaker must not discharge any water into any watercourse, public sewer or drain except with the consent of the person to whom it belongs and such consent may be given subject to such terms and conditions as that person may reasonably impose, but shall not be unreasonably withheld.

(4) The undertaker must not make any opening into any public sewer or drain except—

(a)in accordance with plans approved by the person to whom the sewer or drain belongs, but such approval shall not be unreasonably withheld; and

(b)where that person has been given the opportunity to supervise the making of the opening.

(5) The undertaker must not, in carrying out or maintaining works pursuant to this article, damage or interfere with the bed or banks of any watercourse forming part of a main river.

(6) The undertaker must take such steps as are reasonably practicable to secure that any water discharged into a watercourse or public sewer or drain pursuant to this article is as free as may be practicable from gravel, soil or other solid substance, oil or matter in suspension.

(7) This article does not authorise the entry into controlled waters of any matter whose entry or discharge into controlled waters is prohibited by regulation 12 of [F1the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016].

(8) If a person who receives an application for consent or approval fails to notify the undertaker of a decision within 28 days of receiving an application for consent under paragraph (3) or approval under paragraph (4)(a) that person shall be deemed to have granted consent or given approval, as the case may be.

(9) In this article—

(a)“public sewer or drain” means a sewer or drain which belongs to the Environment Agency, a harbour authority within the meaning of section 57 of the Harbours Act 1964(2) (interpretation), an internal drainage board, a joint planning board, a local authority, or a sewerage undertaker; and

(b)other expressions, excluding watercourse, used both in this article and in [F2the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016] have the same meaning as in those Regulations.

(1)

1991 c. 56. Section 6 was amended by sections 36(2) and 101(1) of, and by Schedule 8 to, the Water Act 2003 (c. 37); section 102 was amended by sections 96(1) and 101(2) of, and Part 3 of Schedule 9 to, that Act; section 104 was amended by section 96(4) of the Water Act 2003 and by section 42(3) of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010 (c. 29); section 106 was amended by sections 36(2) and 99 of the Water Act 2003, sections 35, 43(2) and 56(7) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Competition and Service (Utilities) Act 1992 (c. 43), and section 32 of, and paragraph 16(2) of Schedule 3 to, the Flood and Water Management Act 2010. There are other amendments to this Act which are not relevant to this Order.

(2)

1964 c. 40. Paragraph 9B was inserted into Schedule 2 by the Transport and Works Act 1992 (c. 42), section 63(1) and Schedule 3, paragraph 9(1) and (5). There are other amendments to the 1964 Act which are not relevant to this Order.

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