The Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm (Amendment) Order 2016

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm (Amendment) Order 2016 and comes into force on 1st April 2016.

Amendment to the Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014

2.  The Hornsea One Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014 (“the 2014 Order”) is amended in accordance with this Order.

Amendments to Part 3 (requirements) of Schedule 1 (authorised project)

3.  Part 3 (requirements) of Schedule 1 (authorised project) is amended as follows—

(a) in paragraph 2(2)(b), for “1,800 m²” substitute “2,400 m²”;

(b) in paragraph 2(5)(b), for “1,800 m² or 45 metres” substitute “2,500 m² or 50 metres”; and

(c) in paragraph 10, for “MHWS” substitute “the mean low water mark”.

Revised plans

4.—(1) For the purposes of the 2014 Order, the plans listed in column (1) of the Schedule must be treated as having been replaced by the plans listed in column (2).

(2) In the 2014 Order, where a reference to “works plans” or “offshore works plans” includes a plan listed in column (1) of the Schedule, that reference must instead be read as including the corresponding plan listed in column (2).

(3) The Schedule to this Order has effect.

Certification of revised plans

5.—(1) The undertaker must, as soon as practicable after the making of this Order, submit copies of the plans listed in column (2) of the Schedule to this Order to the Secretary of State for certification that they are true copies of those plans.

(2) A plan so certified by the Secretary of State is admissible in any proceedings as evidence of the contents of the document of which it is a copy.

(3) In paragraph (1), the “undertaker” has the same meaning as in article 2(1) of the 2014 Order.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change

Giles Scott

Head of National Infrastructure Consents and Coal Liabilities

Department of Energy and Climate Change

31st March 2016