<p>It is hereby agreed that the Insurers will during the period covered by this Policy or any renewal thereof and subject to the Exceptions, Definitions and Conditions contained herein or endorsed hereon, indemnify the Insured against -</p>

<p>Damage to the boiler or pressure vessel described in the Schedule hereto and to other property of the Insured, caused by and solely due to explosion or collapse as hereinafter defined of any boiler or pressure vessel described in the Schedule whilst in the course of ordinary working.</p>

<p>Provided that the total liability of the Insurers in respect of any one boiler or pressure vessel in any one year of the insurance shall not exceed the limit of indemnity set opposite thereto in the Schedule.</p>

<p>EXCEPTIONS</p>

<p>1. Damage and/or liability caused by the wilful act or wilful neglect of the Insured.<br />
2. Loss sustained by stoppage of work.<br />
3. Loss or damage directly or indirectly caused by or arising out of war, invasion, act of foreign enemy, hostilities (whether war &nbsp;be declared or not), civil war, rebellion, revolution, insurrection, riot, strike, lock-out, civil commotion, military or usurped power or malicious persons acting on behalf of or in connection with any political organization, confiscation, commandeering, requisition or destruction of or damage to property by order of the government de jure or de facto or by any public authority, nuclear reaction, nuclear radiation or radioactive contamination.</p>

<p>DEFINITIONS</p>

<p>The following terms when used in the policy shall have the under mentioned meanings -</p>

<p>1. &quot;Boilers&quot; shall mean any fired closed container or a combined container-piping system in which steam is generated under pressure. When used in the Schedule the term &quot;boiler&quot; includes fittings, built-in super heaters and economizers but does not include steam or feed-water piping or separate economizers, the explosion of such items being covered by the policy only if specifically listed in the Schedule.</p>

<p>2. &nbsp;&quot;Vessel&quot; shall mean any unfired closed container under steam or air pressure.</p>

<p>3. &nbsp;&quot;Explosion&quot; shall mean the sudden and violent rending or tearing apart of the structure of a boiler or vessel, or any part or parts thereof by force of internal steam, air or fluid pressure, causing bodily displacement of said structure accompanied by the forcible ejectment of its contents.</p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;Explosion&quot; shall also mean any damage to the structure of the boiler by force of the sudden and accidental combustion of ignited furnace of the flue gases.</p>

<p>4. &quot;Collapse&quot; shall mean the sudden and dangerous distortion of any part of a boiler or vessel caused by the crushing stress of external steam of fluid pressure whether attended by rupture or not; it shall not mean any slowly developing deformation due to any cause.<br />
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