CLASS 8, THE FREIGHT, DEMURRAGE AND DEFENCE CLASS ____________________ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a SEPARATE MEETING of the MEMBERS OF CLASS 8, THE FREIGHT, DEMURRAGE AND DEFENCE CLASS, of the Association will be held at the REGISTERED OFFICE of the Association, 50 LEMAN STREET, LONDON, E1 8HQ at 12:20 p.m. on WEDNESDAY, 28th JANUARY 2009, or as soon thereafter as the meeting of Class 7 called for that day is finished, for the purpose of amending the Rules. The following amendments together with such further amendments, if any, as may be proposed will be submitted for adoption with or without modification and with effect from noon G.M.T. on the 20th day of February 2009. [New wording is in bold. The explanatory notes in italics will not appear in the actual Rules.] RULE 9 RISKS COVERED 9.1 Subject to any special terms which may be agreed in writing and to the provisions of Rules 22 and 23, an Assured is insured in respect of each Ship entered by him in this Class for legal costs, charges or disbursements incurred in relation to the claims or matters set out in Rules 9.2.1 - 9.2.16, PROVIDED that such legal costs, charges or disbursements arise: 9.1.1 in respect of the Assured’s interest in such Ship; and 9.1.2 in connection with the operation of such Ship by or on behalf of the Assured; and 9.1.3 out of events occurring during the period of entry of such Ship; and 9.1.4 are incurred with the prior approval of the Association. 9.2 Legal or other proceedings in relation to the following claims or matters: 9.2.1 hire, off-hire, freight, dead freight, passage money, general and particular average contributions or charges; 9.2.2 demurrage, damages for detention or dispatch money; 9.2.3 breach of any charterparty, bill of lading or other contract; 9.2.4 detention from any cause by any department of state, or public or local body or authority or other person or persons in authority; and if in such cases an entered Ship be, by order of the Committee, allowed to remain under detention for the purpose of testing the legality of such detention, the Assured shall be indemnified for his actual loss, by payment of such sum as the Committee in its sole discretion shall consider fair and reasonable, to the extent that such loss shall not be otherwise recovered; 9.2.5 supply of inferior or wrongly described bunkers, equipment or other necessaries, or negligent repair or alteration; 9.2.6 improper loading, lightering, stowage, trimming or discharge of cargo; 9.2.7 overcharges in accounts; 9.2.8 amounts due from or to underwriters on Ship, cargo, freight and other interests; 9.2.9 salvage and towage services rendered by any entered Ship; 9.2.10 representation of Assureds at official investigations, coroners inquests or other enquiries; - 2 9.2.11 claims by or against masters, officers, crew or passengers; 9.2.12 claims arising in connection with building, conversion, alteration, repair, purchase, sale or mortgage; 9.2.13 claims by or against revenue or customs authorities; 9.2.14 claims for damages or loss sustained by an Assured which are not covered by the policies on hull and machinery provided that if such claims (apart from detention) are not so covered by reason of any deductible, franchise and/or other uninsured proportion of the damages or loss borne by the Assured as a result of the terms of those policies the Committee may in its sole discretion refuse to cover the Assured in respect thereof either wholly or in part; 9.2.15 information and lega