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Paragraph 63 I1

(1)

The undertaker must pay to BPC all costs, charges, damages and expenses not otherwise provided for in this Part (but subject to article 41 (no double recovery)) which may be occasioned to or reasonably and properly incurred by BPC—

(a)

by reason of the construction, working, maintenance of a specified work or the failure of such a work; or

(b)

by reason of any act or omission of the undertaker or of any person in its employ or of its contractors or others whilst engaged upon a specified work,

and the undertaker must indemnify BPC from and against all costs, claims and demands arising out of or in connection with a specified work or any such failure, act or omission; and the fact that any act or thing may have been done by BPC on behalf of the undertaker or in accordance with plans approved by BPC or in accordance with any requirement of BPC’s representative or under BPC’s representative’s supervision will not (if it was done without negligence on the part of BPC or of any person in its employ or of its contractors or agents) excuse the undertaker from any liability under the provisions of this sub-paragraph.

(2)

BPC must give the undertaker reasonable notice of any such claim or demand made by a third party as soon as reasonably practicable after BPC becomes aware of it and must make no settlement or compromise of such a claim or demand in excess of £10,000 without the prior consent of the undertaker (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Sch. 16 para. 63 in force at 5.12.2022, see art. 1