The Sheringham Shoal and Dudgeon Extensions Offshore Wind Farm Order 2024

Payments

9.—(1) The undertaker must pay to National Highways a sum equal to the whole of any costs and expenses which National Highways reasonably incurs (including costs and expenses for using internal or external staff and costs relating to any work which becomes abortive) in relation to the specified works, and in relation to any approvals sought under this Order, or otherwise incurred under this Part including—

(a) the checking and approval of the information required under paragraph 7(1);

(b) the supervision of the specified works;

(c) the checking and approval of the information required to determine approvals under this Order;

(d) all costs in relation to the transfer of any land required for the specified works;

(e) all legal and administrative costs and disbursements incurred by National Highways in connection with the specified works and sub-paragraphs ‎(a) to (d); and

(f) any value added tax which is payable by National Highways only in respect of such costs and expenses arising under this paragraph and for which it cannot obtain reinstatement from HM Revenue and Customs;

together comprising “the NH costs”.

(2) National Highways must within 14 days of receipt of the information pursuant to sub- paragraph 5(1) provide the undertaker with a schedule showing its estimate of the NH costs.

(3) The undertaker must within 30 days of receipt of the notice pursuant to sub-paragraph ‎(2) pay to National Highways the estimate of the NH costs.

(4) If at any time after the payment referred to in sub-paragraph ‎(3) has become payable, National Highways reasonably believes that the NH costs will exceed the estimated NH costs notified pursuant to sub-paragraph ‎(2) it may give notice to the undertaker of the amount that it believes the NH costs will exceed the estimate (“the excess”).

(5) The undertaker must within 30 days of receipt of the notification pursuant to sub-paragraph (4) pay to National Highways an amount equal to the excess.

(6) National Highways must give the undertaker a final account of the NH costs referred to in sub-paragraph ‎(1) above as a fully itemised invoice within 30 days of the issue of the provisional certificate issued pursuant to paragraph 10(4).

(7) Within 30 days of the issue of the final account—

(a) if the final account shows a further sum as due to National Highways the undertaker must pay to National Highways the sum shown due to it; and

(b) if the account shows that the payment or payments previously made by the undertaker have exceeded the costs incurred by National Highways, National Highways must refund the difference to the undertaker.

(8) The undertaker must pay to National Highways within 30 days of receipt and prior to such costs being incurred the total costs that National Highways believe will be properly and necessarily incurred by National Highways in undertaking any statutory procedure or preparing and bringing into force any traffic regulation order or orders necessary to carry out or for effectively implementing the specified works.