The National Grid (Yorkshire Green Energy Enablement Project) Development Consent Order 2024

Making good of detriment; compensation and indemnity, etc.

23.—(1) If any detriment is caused by the construction or failure of the specified work if carried out by the undertaker, the undertaker (if so required by the Trust) must make good such detriment and must pay to the Trust all reasonable and proper expenses incurred by the Trust, and compensation for any loss sustained by the Trust in making good or otherwise by reason of the detriment.

(2) The undertaker must be responsible for and make good to the 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 Trust—

(a) by reason of the construction or, to the extent that it would affect the waterway or any function of the Trust, 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 the construction or, to the extent that it would affect the waterway or any function of the Trust, maintenance of a specified work;

and subject to sub-paragraph (4) the undertaker must effectively indemnify and hold harmless the Trust from and against all claims and demands arising out of or in connection with any of the matters referred to in subparagraphs (a) and (b) (provided that the Trust is not entitled to recover from the undertaker any consequential losses which are not reasonably foreseeable) subject to a maximum sum of £10 million (ten million pounds).

(3) 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 Trust, its officers, servants, contractors or agents.

(4) The 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.