Making good of detriment; compensation and indemnity, etc.E+W+S
32.—(1) If any detriment is caused by the construction or failure of the specified works or the protective works if carried out by the undertaker, the undertaker (if so required by the Canal and River Trust) must make good such detriment and must pay to the Canal and River Trust all reasonable expenses incurred by the Canal and River Trust, and compensation for any loss sustained by the Canal and River Trust in making good or otherwise by reason of the detriment.
(2) The undertaker must be responsible for and make good to the Canal and River Trust all costs, charges, damages, expenses and losses not otherwise provided for in this Part which may be occasioned to and reasonably incurred by the Canal and River Trust—
(a)by reason of the construction of a specified work or a protective 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 the construction of a specified work or protective work; and subject to sub-paragraph (4) the undertaker must effectively indemnify and hold harmless the Canal and River Trust from and against all claims and demands arising out of or in connection with any of the matters referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) (provided that the Canal and River Trust is not entitled to recover from the undertaker any consequential losses which are not reasonably foreseeable).
(3) The fact that any act or thing may have been done by the Canal and River Trust on behalf of the undertaker or in accordance with plans approved by the engineer or in accordance with any requirement of the engineer or under the engineer’s supervision or in accordance with any directions or awards of an arbitrator is not to (if it was done without negligence on the part of the Canal and River Trust or of any person in its employ or of its contractors or agents) excuse the undertaker from any liability under the provisions of this paragraph.
(4) Nothing in sub-paragraph (2) imposes any liability on the undertaker with respect to any detriment, damage, loss or interruption to the extent that it is attributable to the act, neglect or default of the Canal and River Trust, its officers, servants, contractors or agents.
(5) The Canal and River Trust must give the undertaker reasonable notice of any such claim or demand as aforesaid and no settlement or compromise of such a claim or demand is to be made without the prior consent of the undertaker.
(6) The aggregate cap of the undertaker’s gross liability for consequential losses shall be limited to £15,000,000 (fifteen million pounds) for any one occurrence or all occurrences of a series arising out of the one original cause.