The National Grid (Hinkley Point C Connection Project) (Correction) Order 2017

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the National Grid (Hinkley Point C Connection Project) (Correction) Order 2017 and comes into force on 21st July 2017.

Corrections

2.  In Schedule 15 (Protective Provisions), Part 5 (Protection for First Corporate Shipping Limited) to the National Grid (Hinkley Point C Connection Project) Order 2016 (“the Order”), after paragraph 61 (BPC’s apparatus) insert—

“Acquisition and use of land

61A.   The undertaker must not exercise the powers conferred by—

(a) article 17 (protective work to buildings);

(b) article 19 (compulsory acquisition of land);

(c) article 22 (compulsory acquisition of rights);

(d) article 23 (extinguishment and suspension of private rights);

(e) article 26 (acquisition of subsoil or airspace only);

(f) article 28 (rights under or over streets); or

(g) article 31 (temporary use of land for maintaining the authorised development),

over or in respect of any of BPC’s land unless the exercise of such powers is with the consent of BPC.

Procedure regarding certain approvals etc.

61B.   Article 46(3) and paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 4 (discharge of requirements) will not apply in relation to any consent, agreement or approval from BPC required under this Order.”.

3.  Other corrections to be made to the Order are set out in the table in the Schedule to this Order, where—

(a) column 1 sets out where the correction is to be made;

(b) column 2 sets out how the correction is to be made; and

(c) column 3 sets out the text to be substituted, inserted or omitted.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Giles Scott

Head of Energy Infrastructure Planning and Coal Liabilities

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

20th July 2017