The Hinkley Point C (Nuclear Generating Station) Order 2013

Surveys and maintenance of drainage works

2.—(1) Before commencing the construction of a consented work liable to affect a drainage work, the undertaker shall procure at its expense, in liaison with and to the reasonable satisfaction of the Agency, a survey of any drainage work liable to be affected by that consented work.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (3), the undertaker shall, from the commencement of the construction of any consented work and except to the extent that any approval given by the Agency under this Schedule permits otherwise, maintain in good repair and condition and free from obstruction any drainage work which is already in existence which is situated within the limits of deviation and on land owned by the undertaker or which it otherwise has control of or is in occupation of for the purposes of or in connection with the consented work.

(3) The obligation imposed on the undertaker by sub-paragraph (2) does not apply where the Agency or another person other than the undertaker is liable to maintain the drainage work in question and is not precluded by the exercise of the powers of this Order from doing so.

(4) If any drainage work referred to in sub-paragraph (2) is not maintained in good repair and condition and free from obstruction the Agency may by notice in writing require the undertaker to repair and restore that drainage work, or any part of it, or (if the undertaker so elects and the Agency in writing consents), to remove the drainage work and restore the site (including sea defences) to its former condition, to such extent and within such limits as the Agency reasonably requires.

(5) If within a reasonable period, being not less than 28 days beginning with the date on which a notice under sub-paragraph (4) is served on the undertaker, it has failed to begin taking steps to comply with the reasonable requirements of the notice and subsequently complete them within such reasonable period as may be specified in the notice, the Agency may do what is necessary for such compliance and may recover any expenditure reasonably incurred by it in so doing from the undertaker.

(6) In the event of any dispute as to the reasonableness of any requirement of a notice served under sub-paragraph (4), the Agency shall not, except in a case of emergency, exercise the powers conferred by sub-paragraph (5) until the dispute has been finally determined.