The Hinkley Point C (Nuclear Generating Station) Order 2013

Confirmation of byelaws

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

(2) At least one month 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 shall be open to inspection shall be published as follows—

(a) once in the London Gazette; and

(b) once in each of two successive weeks in a local newspaper circulating in the district of West Somerset.

(3) Not later than the first date on which the notice under paragraph (2) is published, the undertaker shall send a copy of the notice to the Chief Executive Officer of West Somerset District Council, to the Harbour Master for the Port of Bridgwater and to the Secretary of State.

(4) During a period of at least one month before application is made for confirmation of the byelaws, a copy of the byelaws shall be kept by the undertaker at the office of the harbour master and shall at reasonable hours be open to public inspection without payment.

(5) The undertaker shall 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 one month 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 shall 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 shall 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 shall be printed and deposited by the undertaker at the office of the harbour master and shall at all reasonable hours be open to public inspection without payment, and a copy of the byelaws shall on application be furnished to any person on payment of such reasonable sum as the undertaker may determine.