15.4 TERMINATION FOR CONVENIENCE
The Employer can terminate the contract at any time for his own convenience
by giving notice to the Contractor.
The termination takes effect 28 days after the later of the dates on which the
Contractor receives the notice or the Employer returns the Contractor ’ s per-
formance security. The exception to the right to terminate for convenience is
that the Employer cannot terminate the contract in order to execute the works
himself or arrange for other contractors to do so.
The financial consequences of a termination for convenience are the same
as for termination resulting from
force majeure under clause 19.6. We will
consider these shortly, in Section 4.19.
It is noteworthy that the effect of treating the consequences as the same
means that, surprisingly perhaps, the Contractor is not entitled to loss of
profit even though he finds the contract terminated through no fault of his but
entirely for the Employer ’ s own purposes or convenience.
By clauses 15.5 and 16.2, following termination the Contractor is to cease
all further work, unless instructed to carry out work for safety and protection
purposes, is to hand over Contractor ’ s documents, plant, materials and other
work for which he has received payment and is to remove all goods from site
(except as necessary for safety) and leave the site.