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1.—(1) In this licence—E+W+S
“the 2009 Act” means the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009;
“Annex 1 Habitat” means such habitat as defined under the EU Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Fauna and Flora;
“array” means Work Nos. 1 and 2, as set out in paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 13 to the Order;
“authorised deposits” means the substances and articles specified in paragraph 2(3) of this licence;
“authorised scheme” means Work No. 3A described in paragraph 2 of this licence or any part of those works;
“commence” means the first carrying out of any part of the licensed activities, save for pre-construction surveys and monitoring;
“condition” means a condition in Part 2 of this licence;
“enforcement officer” means a person authorised to carry out enforcement duties under Chapter 3 of the 2009 Act;
“environmental statement” means the document certified as the environmental statement by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Order and submitted with the application on 1 March 2013;
“export cables” means Work No. 3A, as set out in paragraph 2(2) of this licence;
“JNCC” means the Joint Nature Conservation Committee;
“Kingfisher Fortnightly Bulletin” means the bulletin published by the Humber Seafood Institute or such other alternative publication approved in writing by the MMO;
“licensed activities” means the activities specified in Part 1 of this licence;
“maintain” includes inspect, repair, adjust and alter, and further includes remove, reconstruct and replace any of the ancillary works and any component part of any wind turbine generator or offshore substation described in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (authorised development) to the Order to the extent assessed in the environmental statement, and “maintenance” shall be construed accordingly;
“Marine Management Organisation” or “MMO” means the body created under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 which is responsible for the monitoring and enforcement of this licence;
“MCA” means the Maritime and Coastguard Agency;
“mean high water springs” or “MHWS” means the highest level which spring tides reach on average over a period of time;
“notice to mariners” includes any notice to mariners which may be issued by the Admiralty, Trinity House, Queen’s harbourmasters, government departments and harbour and pilotage authorities;
“the Order” means the Rampion Offshore Wind Farm Order 2014;
“Order limits” means the limits shown on the works plan within which the authorised scheme may be carried out, whose grid coordinates seaward of MHWS are set out in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of this licence;
“outline cable specification and installation plan” means the document certified as the outline cable specification and installation plan for the purposes of this Order;
“outline fisheries liaison strategy” means the document certified as the outline fisheries liaison strategy for the purposes of this Order;
“outline offshore written scheme of archaeological investigation” means the document certified as the outline offshore written scheme of archaeological investigation by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Order;
“Trinity House” means The Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond;
“undertaker” means E.ON Climate & Renewables UK Rampion Offshore Wind Limited;
“vessel” includes every description of vessel, however propelled or moved, and includes a jack-up barge, floating crane, non-displacement craft, a personal watercraft, a seaplane on the surface of the water, a hydrofoil vessel, a hovercraft or any other amphibious vehicle and any other thing constructed or adapted for movement through, in, on or over water and which is at the time in, on or over water;
“works plan” means the plan certified as the works plan by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Order.
(2) A reference to any statute, order, regulation or similar instrument shall be construed as a reference to a statute, order, regulation or instrument as amended by any subsequent statute, order, regulation or instrument or as contained in any subsequent re-enactment.
(3) Unless otherwise indicated—
(a)all times shall be taken to be Greenwich Mean Time (GMT);
(b)all co-ordinates shall be taken to be latitude and longitude degrees and minutes to two decimal places.
(4) Except where otherwise notified in writing by the relevant organisation, the primary point of contact with the organisations listed below and the address for returns and correspondence shall be—
Marine Management Organisation
Offshore Licensing Team
Lancaster House
Hampshire Court
Newcastle Business Park
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 7YH
Tel: 0300 123 1032
Marine Management Organisation (Coastal Office)
South Eastern Coastal Office
Shoreham Office
Pilots’ Watch House
Basin Road South
Portslade
West Sussex
BN41 1WD
Tel: 01273 419 122
Trinity House
Tower Hill
London
EC3N 4DH
Tel: 020 7481 6900;
The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office
Admiralty Way
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 2DN
Tel: 01823 337 900;
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Navigation Safety Branch
Bay 2/04
Spring Place
105 Commercial Road
Southampton
SO15 1EG
Tel: 023 8032 9191;
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Pakefield Road
Lowestoft
Suffolk
NR33 0HT
Tel: 01502 562 244;
Natural England
Area 1C, Nobel House
17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 2AL
Tel: 0300 060 4911;
English Heritage
Eastgate Court
195-205 High Street
Guildford
GU1 3EH
Tel: 01483 252 057;
JNCC
Inverdee House
Baxter Street
Aberdeen
AB11 9QA
Tel: 01224 266 550.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 14 Pt. 1 para. 1 in force at 6.8.2014, see art. 1
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