The JCT Major Project Form -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction and background -- Introduction and background to the Major Project Form -- The reduction in length -- Who is this contract for? -- Some significant features -- The contract documents -- The requirements -- The proposals -- 2 General obligations -- General obligations of the contractor - clause 1 -- Execution and completion - clause 1.1 -- Contractor as planning supervisor and principal contractor -clauses 1.2 and 1.3 -- The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 1994 -- Instructions - clause 2 -- Compliance with instructions - clause 2.1 -- Instructions to be treated as not giving rise to a Change - clause 2.2 -- Contractor failing to comply with instruction - clause 2.3 -- Statutory requirements - clause 3 -- Compliance with statutory requirements - clause 3.1 -- Applications made and notices given by contractor in connection with statutory requirements -- Fees and charges - clause 3.2 -- Civil liability for breach of 'Statutory Requirements' -- Conflict and discrepancy - clause 4 -- Introduction -- Notification of discrepancies - clause 4.1 -- Discrepancies within the requirements - clause 4.2 -- Discrepancies within the proposals - clause 4.3 -- Discrepancies between the requirements, proposals and statutory requirements - clause 4.4 -- Alterations to statutory requirements after the base date - clause 4.5 -- Standards of design, materials and workmanship - clause 5 -- Background law - design - workmanship and materials -- Materials and workmanship -- The contractor's responsibility for the requirements - clause 5.1 -- Contractor's design warranties - clause 5.2 -- Contractor to use skill and care - clause 5.3 -- Kinds and standards of materials and goods - clause 5.4 -- Standards of workmanship - clause 5.5 -- Design submission procedure - clause 6.

Introduction -- Contractor to prepare the design documents - clause 6.1 -- Content and timing of submission of design documents - clause 6.2 -- Employer's response - clause 6.3 -- Employer not responding to a submitted design document - clause 6.4 -- Employer's explanation of why it considers that the design document is non-compliant - clause 6.5 -- Action required from the contractor - clause 6.6 -- Employer not liable to pay unless work executed pursuant to design documents marked 'A' or 'B' - clause 6.7 -- Contractor's challenge - clause 6.8 -- Significance of contractor not employing the challenge procedure - clause 6.9 -- Contractual effect of compliance with the design submittal procedure - clause 6.10 -- Copyright - clause 7 -- Brief background -- Copyright under the MPF - clauses 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 -- Some points to note -- Ground conditions - clause 8 -- Background -- Ground conditions at contractor's risk - clause 8.1 -- Contractor's proposal treated as giving rise to a change - clause 8.2 -- 3 Time -- Commencement and completion - clause 9 -- Access - clause 9.1 -- Commencing execution of the project - clause 9.2 -- Use of reasonable endeavours - clause 9.3 -- Procedure leading to practical completion - clause 9.4 -- Damages for delay - clause 10 -- Liquidated damages - clause 10.1 -- Repayment - clause 10.2 -- Taking over parts of the project - clause 11 -- Summary -- Comparison with sectional completion -- Taking over part with consent - clause 11.1 -- Statement of part taken over - clause 11.2 -- Reduction of liquidated damages - clause 11.3 -- Matters not covered -- Extensions of time - clause 12 -- Introduction -- Introductory words - clause 12.1 -- The events giving rise to an adjustment to the completion date -- Force majeure - clause 12.1.1 -- Specified perils - clause 12.1.2 -- Exercise of Government powers - clause 12.1.3.

Terrorism - clause 12.1.4 -- Changes - clause 12.1.5 -- Other persons on site authorised by the employer - clause 12.1.6 -- Contractor validly suspending - clause 12.1.7 -- Other breaches or acts of prevention of the employer - clause 12.1.8 -- Clause 12.1 proviso -- Procedures and timetable for adjustments to completion date -- Notification - clause 12.2 -- Contractor to provide and update supporting documentation -clause 12.3 -- Employer's response - clause 12.4 -- Interim review of adjustment - clause 12.5 -- Post practical completion review - clause 12.6 -- Some specific points to which the employer must have regard in adjusting the completion date - clause 12.7 -- No earlier completion date - clause 12.8 -- Acceleration - clause 13 -- Introduction -- The invitation and the proposal - clause 13.1 -- Employer's reaction - clause 13.2 -- Limits on employer's ability to reduce completion date - clause 13.3 -- Bonus - clause 14 -- The bonus provision - clause 14.1 -- 4 Control -- The employer's representative - clause 15 -- Employer's representative - clause 15.1 -- Employer may appoint others - clause 15.2 -- Testing and compliance - clause 16 -- Summary -- Instructions following failure to carry out work in a good and workmanlike manner not covered -- Instructions to open up or test - clause 16.1 -- Non-complying work, materials or goods - employer's instructions - clause 16.2 -- Instructions to remove non-complying work, materials or goods from the site - clause 16.2.1 -- Instructions for non-complying work, materials or goods to be used - clause 16.2.2 -- Consequential instructions - clause 16.2.3 -- Opening up, testing or inspection - clause 16.2.4 -- Rectification of defects - clause 17 -- Background -- Summary of clause 17 -- Instructions to remedy defects - clause 17.1 -- Statement of remedying of defects - clause 17.2.

Defects not remedied by contractor - employer's options - clause 17.3 -- Preservation of other rights and remedies - clause 17.4 -- Pre-appointed consultants and named specialists - clause 18 -- Introduction and background -- Summary of clause 18 -- Application in respect of pre-appointed consultants governed by appendix - Clause 18.1 -- Execution of Model Form of Novation Agreement - clause 18.2 -- Appointment of named specialist - clause 18.3 -- Contractor solely responsible for pre-appointed consultants and named specialists - clause 18.4 -- Consequences if contractor fails to enter into a contract - clause 18.5 -- Contractor not to prejudice employer under form of novation or specialist sub-contract - clause 18.6 -- No termination without consent - clause 18.7 -- Appointment of replacement - clause 18.8 -- Contractor to supply copy of contract - clause 18.9 -- Contractor's responsibilities unaffected by appointment of replacement - clause 18.10 -- Contractor's responsibilities unaffected by variations to services etc. - clause 18.11 -- Cost savings and value improvements - clause 19 -- Introduction -- Summary of clause 19 -- Scope of savings and improvements - clause 19.1 -- Details of amendments and quotation - clause 19.2 -- Negotiation of the financial benefit - clause 19.3 -- Payment of contractor's share of financial benefit - clause 19.4 -- Restrictions on employer's use of contractor's suggested amendments - clause 19.5 -- 5 Valuation and payment -- Changes - clause 20 -- Background -- Summary of clause 20 -- The definition of a 'Change' -- Notification - clause 20.1 -- Instructions giving rise to change - clause 20.1.1 -- Occurrence of event treated as giving rise to a change - clause 20.1.2 -- Value agreed or a fair valuation - clause 20.2 -- Employer's request for a quotation - clause 20.3.

Contents of the quotation and period of validity - clause 20.4 -- Contractor to provide sufficient detail to enable the employer to assess amounts and periods Acceptance of quotation - clause 20.5 -- Fair valuation - clause 20.6 -- Proposed valuation - clause 20.7 -- Employer's notification of valuation - clause 20.8 -- Post practical completion review - clause 20.9 -- Loss and/ or expense - clause 21 -- Background -- Summary of clause 21 -- Changes excluded - clause 21.1 -- Matters for which employer liable to the contractor in respect of loss and expense - clause 21.2 -- Notification issues - clause 21.3 -- Contractor to provide assessment and supporting information -clause 21.4 -- Employer's obligation to ascertain - clause 21.5 -- Review mechanism - clause 21.6 -- Payment by employer following ascertainment - clause 21.7 -- Loss and expense ascertainment to exclude any element contributed to by a cause other than a change or some other loss and expense reimbursable matter under clause 21.2 - clause 21.8 -- Payments - clause 22 -- Background -- Summary of clause 22 -- The contractor's application - clause 22.1 -- Employer's interim payment advice - clause 22.2 -- The requirement to give notice of the proposed payment -clause 22.3 -- The due date and the final date for payment - clause 22.4 -- Contents of the interim payment advice - clause 22.5 -- The final payment advice - clause 22.6 -- The effect of the issue of the final payment advice - clause 22.7 -- Payment and the Construction Industry Scheme - clause 22.8 -- Withholding - clause 23 -- Withholding - requirements - clause 23 -- Grounds upon which a withholding can be made -- Requirements of the notice -- Position if there is no valid notice -- Interest - clause 24 -- Interest on late payments -- VAT - clause 25 -- Treatment of VAT - clauses 25.1 and 25.2 -- The pricing document -- Content.

Payment rules.