sch.4-sec.17Force majeure

sch.4-sec.17 Force majeure

If either you or we cannot meet an obligation under this contract because of an event outside the control of the party (a force majeure event )— the obligation, other than an obligation to pay money (including, in our case, a payment for failure to meet a guaranteed service level), is suspended to the extent it is affected by the event for so long as the event continues; and the affected party must use its best endeavours to give the other prompt notice of that fact including full particulars of the event, an estimate of its likely duration, the extent to which its obligations are affected and the steps taken to remove, overcome or minimise those effects. If the effects of a force majeure event are widespread, we will be deemed to have given you prompt notice if we make the necessary information available by way of a 24-hour telephone service within 30 minutes of being advised of the event or otherwise as soon as practicable. A party that claims a force majeure event must use its best endeavours to remove, overcome or minimise the effects of that event as soon as practicable. Nothing in this clause requires a party to settle an industrial dispute that constitutes a force majeure event in any manner other than the manner preferred by that party. (sch.4-sec.17-ssec.17.1) If either you or we cannot meet an obligation under this contract because of an event outside the control of the party (a force majeure event )— the obligation, other than an obligation to pay money (including, in our case, a payment for failure to meet a guaranteed service level), is suspended to the extent it is affected by the event for so long as the event continues; and the affected party must use its best endeavours to give the other prompt notice of that fact including full particulars of the event, an estimate of its likely duration, the extent to which its obligations are affected and the steps taken to remove, overcome or minimise those effects. (sch.4-sec.17-ssec.17.2) If the effects of a force majeure event are widespread, we will be deemed to have given you prompt notice if we make the necessary information available by way of a 24-hour telephone service within 30 minutes of being advised of the event or otherwise as soon as practicable. (sch.4-sec.17-ssec.17.3) A party that claims a force majeure event must use its best endeavours to remove, overcome or minimise the effects of that event as soon as practicable. (sch.4-sec.17-ssec.17.4) Nothing in this clause requires a party to settle an industrial dispute that constitutes a force majeure event in any manner other than the manner preferred by that party.

• (a) the obligation, other than an obligation to pay money (including, in our case, a payment for failure to meet a guaranteed service level), is suspended to the extent it is affected by the event for so long as the event continues; and