Sub-clause (a) refers to ice damage. According to the 2013 Plan the deduction will be the subject of individual negotiations where inter alia the strength of the hull and ice class will be taken into account. According to the Plan, the deduction applies only to partial damage in accordance with the general system of the Plan.
Sub-clause (b) refers to electronic equipment. The deduction will be the subject of individual negotiations where inter alia the age of the equipment can be taken into account. It is therefore unnecessary to make the size of the deduction dependent on the age of the equipment in the actual Plan text.
The term “electronic equipment” covers three main groups, viz. radio equipment, fish-finding equipment and navigation equipment.
Radio equipment includes main transmitters with short-wave and receiver, watch-receivers, AM-VHF telephone monitors, VHF transmitters and receivers, lifeboat transmitters, direction-finding beacons, emergency communication sets for aircraft frequency, receivers and TVs for mess rooms or cabins, walkie-talkie transmitters and receivers, equipment for communication between bridge, engine room, cabins, mess rooms, and deck, and weather map recorders.
Navigation equipment includes gyrocompasses, autopilots, course controllers, all types of radar, electronic logs for satellite navigators and display screens, radio sounders for AM VXF and WT, satellite navigators, Omega receivers and Loran C receivers.
In addition to deductions for electronic equipment, the Plan’s rules relating to machinery damage deductions and deductibles, cf. Cl. 12-16 and Cl. 12-18 shall apply. For the sake of clarity, this is repeated in sub-clauses (c) and (d). As regards the basis for calculating the various deductions, Cl. 12-19 applies so that all deductions shall be calculated on the basis of the full amount of compensation according to the Plan before deductions under any of the relevant provisions.
Given that the normal cover has not allowed for new for old deductions, the age of the vessel and the machinery, possibly also the sum insured, shall be taken into account when determining deductions and deductibles. In the event that the agreed deductions do not compensate for the lack of new for old deductions, the insurer may have to agree on individual new for old deductions.
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