12.—(1) Without limiting the other provisions of this Part, the undertaker is to be responsible for, and make good to AB Ports, all losses, costs, charges, damages and expenses however caused which may reasonably be incurred by or occasioned to AB Ports by reason of or arising from or in connection with—
(a)the perusal of plans and navigation schemes and the inspection of a specified work by AB Ports or its duly authorised representative;
(b)the carrying out of surveys, inspections, tests and sampling within the harbours and the approaches to the harbours—
(i)to establish the marine conditions prevailing prior to the construction of any of the tidal works in such area of the River Tawe as AB Ports has reasonable cause to believe may subsequently be affected by any accumulation or erosion which the undertaker is liable to remedy under paragraph 8; and
(ii)where AB Ports has reasonable cause to believe that the construction of any of the tidal works is causing or has caused any such accumulation or erosion;
(c)the construction or failure of a specified work, or the undertaking by AB Ports of works or measures to prevent or remedy danger or impediment to navigation or damage to any property of AB Ports arising from such construction or failure including—
(i)any additional costs of dredging incurred by AB Ports as a result of contamination of the seabed caused by the construction of the specified work; and
(ii)any damage to the lock gates or damage from flooding caused by increased wave reflection as a result of the construction of the specified work;
(d)any act or omission of the undertaker or their servants or agents whilst engaged in the construction of a specified work.
(2) Without limiting the generality of sub-paragraph (1), the undertaker must indemnify AB Ports from and against all claims and demands arising out of, or in connection with, such construction, or failure or act or omission as is mentioned in that sub-paragraph.
(3) Nothing in this paragraph imposes any liability on the undertaker to the extent that any losses, costs, charges, damages, expenses, claims or demands referred to in sub-paragraph (1) or (2) are attributable to negligence on the part of AB Ports or of any person in its employ or of its contractors or agents.
(4) AB Ports must give to the undertaker notice in writing of any claim or demand for which the undertaker may be liable under this paragraph and no settlement or compromise of any such claim or demand may be made without the consent in writing of the undertaker.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 8 para. 12 in force at 30.6.2015, see art. 1