The Sizewell C (Nuclear Generating Station) Order 2022

Confirmation of byelaws

64.—(1) Byelaws made by the undertaker under this Order will not come into operation until they have been confirmed by the Secretary of State.

(2) At least 28 days before an application for confirmation of byelaws is made by the undertaker to the Secretary of State, notice of the intention to apply for confirmation and of the place at which and times during which a copy of the byelaws will be open to inspection must be published as follows—

(a) once in each of two successive weeks in two local newspapers circulating in the district of East Suffolk Council; and

(b) on a website managed by the undertaker.

(3) Not later than the first date on which the notice under paragraph (2) is published, the undertaker must send a copy of the notice to the Chief Executive Officer of East Suffolk Council and to the Secretary of State.

(4) During a period of at least 28 days before application is made for confirmation of the byelaws, a copy of the byelaws must be kept by the undertaker at the office of the harbour master and must at reasonable hours be open to public inspection without payment, and must be available on a website managed by the undertaker.

(5) The undertaker must supply a copy of the byelaws or of part of the byelaws to a person who applies for it on payment of a reasonable charge.

(6) During the period of 28 days after completion of the publication of any notice required by paragraph (2), any person may make in writing to the Secretary of State any objection to or representation respecting the byelaws to which the notice relates.

(7) Subject to paragraph (8), the Secretary of State may confirm the byelaws in the form submitted to the Secretary of State with such modifications as the Secretary of State thinks fit or may refuse to confirm them.

(8) Where the Secretary of State proposes to make a modification that appears to the Secretary of State to be substantial the Secretary of State must inform the undertaker and require it to take any steps the Secretary of State considers necessary for informing persons likely to be concerned with the modification, and the Secretary of State may not confirm the byelaws until such period has elapsed as the Secretary of State thinks reasonable for consideration of, and comment upon, the proposed modification by the undertaker and by other persons who have been informed of it.

(9) A copy of the byelaws when confirmed must be printed and deposited by the undertaker at the office of the harbour master and must at all reasonable hours be open to public inspection without payment, must be available on a website managed by the undertaker and a copy of the byelaws must on application be furnished to any person on payment of such reasonable sum as the undertaker may determine.