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10 January 2025 To all Members of Class 6 – Freight, Demurrage & Defence Class 6 – Freight, Demurrage & Defence Endorsement to 2025/26 Policy Year Certificates of Entry – Rule 20.1.10 Communicable Disease Risks We refer to the Association’s Circular dated 9 January 2025 which advised that the resolution to adopt the proposed alterations to the Rules of Class 6 was approved unanimously by Members at their General Meeting on Tuesday 7 January 2025. Attached is an endorsement to the 2025/26 Class 6 – Freight, Demurrage & Defence Certificates of Entry in respect of Communicable Disease Risks. The Board has agreed that Members should benefit from a limited write-back of cover in respect of Communicable Disease Risks, including Coronavirus Diseases, in the amount of USD2,000,000 any one claim and USD4,000,000 in the annual aggregate; cover in respect of Communicable Disease Risks is further limited to an annual aggregate limit of USD10,000,000 in respect of any and all coverages and insurances afforded by the Association to which a Communicable Disease Risks limitation Rule or clause applies. The attached endorsement shall apply where the Member’s Certificate of Entry so states. Yours faithfully Tindall Riley (Britannia) Ltd Managers Freight, Demurrage & Defence – Communicable Disease Risks Endorsement Policy Year 2025/26 Risks Period: 12:00:00 UTC 20 February 2025 to 12:00:00 UTC 20 February 2026 It is hereby agreed that Rule 20.1.10 Declared Communicable Diseases is deleted and replaced by the following new Rule 20.1.10 Communicable Disease Risks: 20.1.10 Communicable Disease Risks Liabilities directly arising from any transmission or alleged transmission of a Declared Communicable Disease; Provided always that: 20.1.10.1 In the event that the World Health Organization (‘WHO’) has determined an outbreak of a Communicable Disease to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (a Declared Communicable Disease), recovery under this insurance in respect of any loss, damage, liability, cost or expense otherwise recoverable hereunder directly arising from any transmission or alleged transmission of the Declared Communicable Disease shall be limited to the amounts stated in Rule 20.1.10.7. 20.1.10.2 The limitation in Rule 20.1.10.1 shall not apply to liabilities which arise directly from an identified instance of a transmission of a Declared Communicable Disease and it is established to the satisfaction of the Managers that such transmission took place before the date of determination by the WHO of the Declared Communicable Disease. 20.1.10.3 Irrespective of whether the requirements of Rule 20.1.10.2 are met, there shall in any event be no recovery from the Association for any: 20.1.10.3.1 liability, cost or expense to identify, clean up, detoxify, remove, monitor or test for the Declared Communicable Disease whether the measures are preventative or remedial; 20.1.10.3.2 liability for or loss, cost or expense arising out of any loss of revenue, loss of hire, business interruption, loss of market, delay or any indirect financial loss, howsoever described, as a result of the Declared Communicable Disease; 20.1.10.3.3 loss, damage, liability, cost or expense caused by or arising out of fear of or the threat of the Declared Communicable Disease. 20.1.10.4 In this Rule 20.1.10, Communicable Disease means any disease, known or unknown, which can be transmitted by means of any substance or agent from any organism to another organism where: 20.1
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