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General exclusions which apply to all sections of this policy
We will not pay:
1. for any liability, loss, damage, cost or expenses
which takes place while any car insured under this
policy is:
a) being used for a purpose other than that
permitted in the limitations as to use in Section
6 of your certificate of motor insurance or;
b) driven by someone who:
i) does not have a valid driving licence; or
ii) is breaking the conditions of their driving
licence; or
iii) is not specically named in Section 5 of
your certificate of motor insurance as
being entitled to drive your car.
However this exception does not apply if your car is:
a) with a member of the motor trade who is not
named in the certificate of motor insurance
for the purpose of maintenance or repair.
b) being parked by an employee of a hotel,
restaurant or car-parking service who is not
named in the certificate of motor insurance.
c) stolen or taken away without your permission.
2. any costs as a result of an agreement or contract
unless we would have had to pay the costs anyway.
3. for deliberate or intentional loss or damage caused
by anyone insured under this policy.
4. any liability, loss, damage, cost or expense caused
if your car:
a) is not taxed and is not registered in the United
Kingdom with the DVLA unless your car is in
the process of being registered with the DVLA.
a) is normally kept outside England, Scotland
or Wales.
5. any loss or damage to property or any direct or
indirect loss, cost, expense or liability caused by,
contributed to or arising from:
a) ionising radiation or contamination by
radioactivity from irradiated nuclear fuel or
nuclear waste or from burning nuclear fuel.
b) the radioactive, toxic, explosive or other
dangerous properties of any nuclear equipment
or its nuclear parts.
6. any liability, loss, damage, cost or expense caused
by riot, strike or civil commotion outside England,
Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man or Channel Islands.
7. any liability, loss, damage, cost or expense caused
by, resulting from or in connection with or in
controlling or suppressing:
a) war, invasion, act of foreign enemy, hostilities
or warlike operations (whether war be declared
or not).
b) civil war, military rising, insurrections, rebellion,
revolution, uprising, military or usurped power,
martial law or connected looting or pillaging;
conscation or nationalisation or requisition
or destruction of or damage to property by or
under the order of any government or public
authority or any act or condition incident to any
of the above except to the extent that we are
required to provide cover under any relevant
road trafc legislation.
8. any liability, loss, damage, cost or expense while
any car is being used on any part of an airport;
a) to which aircraft have access including areas
used for take off, landing, moving or parking
of aircraft.
b) used for ground equipment parking areas and
service roads.
c) used for customs examination.
9. more than our legal liability under the relevant
road trafc legislation for any claim, if the named
driver of your car insured by us was found to have
been driving whilst under the inuence of drink or
drugs at the time of the accident.
10. any liability, loss, damage, cost or expense caused
by pressure waves from an aircraft or other ying
objects travelling at or beyond the speed of sound.
11. any liability, loss, damage, cost or expense caused
by earthquakes and the results of earthquakes.
12. any liability, loss, damage, cost or expense arising
which directly or indirectly relates to terrorism,
except as is strictly required under the relevant
road trafc legislation; terrorism being dened as
any act or the use or threat of force (whether or not
in the territorial limits) including but not limited to:
a) threat of and/or actual endangerment of the
life of a person(s).
b) threat of and/or actual serious violence
against person(s).
c) involving the threat of and/or actual damage to
any form of property.
d) creating a serious risk to the health and safety
of the public.
e) involving the use of rearms, explosives,
biological, chemical, nuclear or other means.
which is committed by any person(s) for political,
religious or ideological purposes to inuence any
government or to coerce or to put any member of
the public in fear.
13. any liability, loss, damage, cost or expense
caused by pollution or contamination, unless the
pollution or contamination is caused by a sudden,
identiable, unexpected and accidental incident
which happens during the period of insurance.
14. for any costs involved in contacting us regarding
your claim (including telephone calls).
15. for costs resulting out of your criminal or illegal
act, in circumstances where the convicted offence