Common use of Route Clearance Charge Clause in Contracts

Route Clearance Charge. Where any route clearance or investigative work is required as a result of a Train Operator Variation Request which involves in excess of checking the relevant equipment against the relevant sectional appendices for the routes concerned, the CVL IM shall be entitled to charge the Train Operator its reasonable costs in carrying out such work (whether or not the Service, the subject of the Train Operator Variation Request, is operated) provided that: (a) the CVL IM notifies the Train Operator of its intention to carry out such work and obtains the Train Operator's consent (failing receipt of which within a reasonable time the CVL IM shall be entitled to reject the Train Operator Variation Request in question) before incurring such costs; (b) the CVL IM shall not be entitled to charge the Train Operator for its costs in obtaining information which it has already procured or should reasonably have procured to meet the requirements of the CVL IM through the relevant rolling stock acceptance board, whether or not in connection with rolling stock operated or to be operated by the Train Operator; and