Section D: Excluded Risks

4.1 - Risks covered by hull and war risks policies

Unless otherwise agreed by the managers, there shall be no recovery from the club in respect of any liabilities which would be recoverable from underwriters if the ship were, at the time of the incident giving rise to such liabilities, fully insured under hull policies on terms equivalent to those of the usual Lloyd’s marine policy with the Institute Time Clauses (Hulls) 1.10.83 attached or to the extent that the ship was fully insured to a proper value (being the market value of the ship without commitment) under a P&I war risks policy including piracy risks. The board may determine the proper value for which the ship should have been insured under the P&I war risks policy. Unless otherwise agreed by the managers, there shall be no recovery in respect of any franchise or deductible borne by the member under such policies.

4.2 - Double insurance

Unless otherwise agreed by the managers, there shall be no recovery in respect of any liabilities recoverable under any other insurance or which would have been so recoverable:

1. apart from any terms in such other insurance excluding or limiting liability on the ground of double insurance; and
2. if the ship had not been entered in the club with cover for the risks set out in the rules.

4.3 - War risks

Unless otherwise agreed by the managers, there shall be no recovery in respect of any liabilities, irrespective of whether a contributory cause of the same being incurred was any neglect on the part of the member or his servants or agents, incurred as a result of:

1. war, civil war, revolution, rebellion, insurrection or civil strife arising therefrom, or any hostile act by or against a belligerent power, or any act of terrorism;
2. capture, seizure, arrest, restraint or detainment (barratry and piracy excepted) and the consequences thereof or any attempt thereat;
3. mines, torpedoes, bombs, rockets, shells, explosives or other similar weapons of war, save that this exclusion does not apply to liabilities which arise solely by reason of:

• a the transport of any such weapons whether on board the ship or not; or
• b the use of any such weapons, either as a result of government order or with the agreement of the board or the managers, where the reason for such use was the avoidance or mitigation of liabilities which would otherwise fall within the cover given by the club.

In the event of any dispute as to whether or not any act constitutes an act of terrorism, the decision of the board shall be final.

4.4 - Radioactive contamination

There shall be no recovery in respect of any liabilities, irrespective of whether a contributory cause of the same being incurred was any neglect on the part of the member or his servants or agents, directly or indirectly caused by or arising from:

1. ionising radiations from or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear waste or from the combustion of nuclear fuel; or
2. the radioactive, toxic, explosive or other hazardous or contaminating properties of any nuclear installation, reactor or other nuclear assembly or nuclear component thereof; or
3. any weapon or device employing atomic or nuclear fission and/ or fusion or other like reaction or radioactive force or matter; or
4. the radioactive, toxic, explosive or other hazardous or contaminating properties of any radioactive matter

other than liabilities arising out of carriage of ‘excepted matter’ (as defined in the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 of the United Kingdom or any regulations made thereunder) as cargo in the ship, and such further exceptions as the board may approve.

4.5 - Guarantees, undertakings and certificates

Notwithstanding the exclusions in rules 4.3 and 4.4, the club will discharge on behalf of the member liabilities arising under a demand made pursuant to the issue by the club on behalf of the member of:

1. a guarantee or other undertaking to the Federal Maritime Commission under Section 2 of US Public Law 89-777; or
2. a certificate in compliance with Article VII of the International Conventions on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage 1969 and 1992 or any amendments thereof; or
3. an undertaking to the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund 1992 in connection with STOPIA; or
4. a certificate in compliance with Article 7 of the International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage 2001; or
5. a certificate in compliance with Article 4bis of the Athens Convention Relating to the Carriage of Passengers and Their Luggage by Sea 2002; or 
6. a certificate in compliance with Article 12 of the Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks 2007; or
7. a certificate in compliance with Regulation 2.5.2, Standard A2.5.2 and Regulation 4.2, Standard A4.2.1, paragraph 1(b) of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC 2006) or domestic legislation by a state party implementing MLC 2006; or
8. any other guarantee, certificate or undertaking issued by the club pursuant to any statute, convention, treaty or law.

4.6

The member shall indemnify the club to the extent that any payment under any such guarantee, undertaking or certificate is or would have been recoverable in whole or in part under a standard P&I war risks policy had the member entered into such policy and complied with the terms and conditions thereof.

4.7

The member agrees that any payment by the club under any such guarantee, undertaking or certificate shall, to the extent of any amount recovered under any policy of insurance or additional cover provided by the club, be by way of loan and there shall be assigned to the club to the extent and on the terms the managers determine to be practicable, all the rights of the member under any other insurance and against any third party.

4.8 - Unlawful sanctionable and hazardous trades

No claim is recoverable if it arises out of or is consequent upon the ship blockade-running or being employed in an unlawful, prohibited or sanctionable carriage, trade, voyage or operation, or if the provision of insurance for a carriage, trade, voyage or operation is or becomes unlawful, prohibited or sanctionable or if the board determines that the carriage, trade, voyage or operation was imprudent, unsafe, unduly hazardous or improper.