7  Confidential Information and Copyright

7.1  The Independent Certifier shall treat as secret and confidential and shall not at any time for any reason disclose or permit to be disclosed to any person or otherwise make use of or permit to be made use of any unpublished information relating to the Service Provider's or the Authority's or the Construction Contractor's (if appropriate) technology or other know-how business plans or finances or any such information relating to a subsidiary, supplier, customer or client of the Service Provider or the Authority or the Construction Contractor (if appropriate) where the information was received during the period of this Deed except as may be reasonably necessary in the performance of the Services.  Upon termination of this Deed for whatever reasons the Independent Certifier shall offer to deliver up to the Service Provider or the Authority (as appropriate) all working papers, computer disks and tapes or other material and copies provided to or prepared by him pursuant either to this Deed or to any previous obligation owed to the Service Provider or the Authority provided always that the Independent Certifier shall be entitled to retain copies of all such items where such offer is accepted.

7.2  The obligation to maintain confidentiality does not apply to any information or material to the extent that the Independent Certifier is compelled to disclose any such information or material by law or any regulatory or Government authority.

7.3  The copyright in all reports, and other documents produced by the Independent Certifier in connection with the Project shall remain vested in the Independent Certifier but the Independent Certifier grants to the Service Provider and Authority and their nominees with full title guarantee a non-exclusive irrevocable royalty free licence to copy and use such reports and other documents and to reproduce the information contained in them for any purpose related to the Project including (but without limitation) the construction, completion, maintenance, letting, promotion, advertisement, reinstatement, extension and repair of the Project. Such licence shall include a licence to grant sub-licences and to transfer the same to third parties.

7.4  The Independent Certifier shall not be liable for use by any person of the documents, (including reports, details, plans, specifications, schedules, computer programs, software, consents and any other papers, works, reports and inventions produced by the Independent Certifier) for any purpose other than that for which the same were prepared by or on behalf of the Independent Certifier.