The Hinkley Point C (Nuclear Generating Station) Order 2013

Closure of jetty

82.—(1) In this article the closure date is—

(a) 31st December 2025;

(b) such later date as the Secretary of State may on the application of the undertaker appoint; or

(c) such other date as is appointed under paragraph (3).

(2) On or before the closure date, the undertaker shall cease all operations in respect of the temporary jetty except to comply with this article, and after that date shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, dismantle, demolish and remove (so far as constructed) the whole of the temporary jetty and all of the temporary jetty works or works authorised by article 3 of, and Part 17 of Schedule 2 to, the 1995 Order and associated with the temporary jetty that are in, on, under or over tidal water or tidal lands below the level of high water except for—

(a) those parts of the temporary jetty and works on the ground lying at the level of, or under the ground;

(b) those parts of the temporary jetty or works in the sea below the level of low water lying at the level of, or under, the bed of the sea; or

(c) any hardstanding on which any part of the temporary jetty may be constructed.

(3) If the temporary jetty is no longer required by the undertaker for the construction of Work No. 1A, the undertaker shall as soon as practicable by resolution appoint a closure date.

(4) Not less than 28 days before a closure date proposed to be appointed by resolution of the undertaker under paragraph (3), the undertaker shall publish in Lloyd’s List newspaper and in at least one local newspaper circulating in the district of West Somerset a notice containing a copy of the resolution proposed to be passed by the undertaker appointing that date.