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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thames-water-utilities-limited-thames-tideway-tunnel-order-2014/schedule-16/part-2/paragraph-21",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2384",
  "legislation_title": "The Thames Water Utilities Limited (Thames Tideway Tunnel) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/thames-water-utilities-limited-thames-tideway-tunnel-order-2014",
  "path": "schedule/16/part/2/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Indemnities, costs and exercise of DCO powers and compensation",
  "text": "(1) The undertaker shall be responsible for and make good to the Authority all financial costs or losses not otherwise provided for in this Part of this Schedule which may reasonably be incurred or suffered by the Authority by reason of—\n(a) the construction or operation of the authorised project or the failure of any works comprised within it;\n(b) anything done in relation to a mooring or buoy pursuant to paragraph 10; or;\n(c) any act or omission of the undertaker, its employees, contractors or agents or others whilst engaged upon the construction or operation of the authorised project or dealing with any failure of the authorised project;\n(d) and the undertaker shall indemnify the Authority from and against all claims and demands arising out of or in connection with the authorised project or any such failure, act or omission.\n(2) The fact that any act or thing may have been done—\n(a) by the Authority on behalf of the undertaker; or\n(b) by the undertaker, its employees, contractors or agents in accordance with plans or particulars submitted to or modifications or conditions specified by the Authority, or in a manner approved by the Authority, or under its supervision or the supervision of its duly authorised representative;\nshall not (if it was done or required without negligence on the part of the Authority or its duly authorised representative, employee, contractor or agent) excuse the undertaker from liability under the provisions of this paragraph.\n(3) In complying with the indemnity provisions pursuant to this paragraph the undertaker’s liability shall either be limited to a sum to be agreed between the parties or unlimited.\n(4) The Authority shall give the undertaker reasonable notice of any such claim or demand as is referred to in sub-paragraph (1), and no settlement or compromise of any such claim or demand shall be made without the prior consent of the undertaker.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 Pt. 2 para. 21 in force at 24.9.2014, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2384/schedule/16/part/2/paragraph/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:03:40.087761+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}