18.1 If and to the extent that ECO3 is prevented or delayed by Force Majeure (as is defined below) from performing any of its obligations under any Contract and promptly so notifies the Customer specifying the matters constituting Force Majeure, then ECO3 shall be relieved of any liability to the Customer for failure to perform or for delaying in performing such an obligation (as the case may be) but shall nevertheless use its best endeavours to resume full performance thereof. If the delivery of any of the Goods or provision of any of the Services shall be delayed owing to any Force Majeure then the Delivery Date or date for performance of Services (as the case may be) shall be extended for the period during which such Force Majeure continues without invalidating or terminating the relevant Contract provided that ECO3 shall, within a reasonable time of the commencement of the Force Majeure, give to the Customer written notice of the circumstances leading to the same and the expected duration of the delay. For the purposes of this sub-clause 18.1, "Force Majeure" means any circumstances not foreseeable at the date of the relevant Contract and not within the reasonable control of the party in question including, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, strikes, lockouts, shortages of labour or raw materials, civil commotion, riot, invasion, war, threat of or preparation for war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural physical disaster.
18.2 Each paragraph, clause, sub-clause and provision of these Terms and the Contract shall be severable from each other and if, for any reason, any paragraph, clause, sub-clause or provision is held by any court or tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not prejudice or in any way affect the validity or enforceability of any other paragraph, clause, sub-clause or provision which shall be read and construed so as to give the full effect thereto subject only to any contrary provision of law to the extent that, where the Terms or the Contract (as the case may be) or any paragraph, clause, sub-clause or provision thereof would, but for the provision of this sub-clause 18.2, have been read and construed as being void or ineffective, it shall nevertheless be valid the full extent to which it is not contrary to any such provision of law.
18.3 All notices to be sent to the Customer shall be sent to the address shown on the Form unless the Customer shall have notified another address in writing to ECO3.
18.4 The Contract and these Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (“Hong Kong SAR”). Each of the parties hereto irrevocably agrees that the courts of the Hong Kong SAR shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine any suit, action or proceedings and to settle any dispute, which may arise out of or in connection with the Contract and these Terms shall :- (i) in the event that the Customer is carrying on business in Hong Kong SAR (whether exclusively or not), be conducted in the courts of Hong Kong SAR; and (ii) in the event that the Customer is not so carrying on business in Hong Kong SAR, be conducted by way of arbitration in accordance with UNCITRAL Arbitration rules in effect at the time of the arbitration except as may be modified by mutual agreement between the parties and for which purpose the seat of arbitration shall be the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (“HKIAC”) and the appointing authority shall be HKIAC; and, for either such case , each party irrevocably submits to the jurisdiction of such courts or tribunal (as the case may be).
18.5 In the event that either (i) the Terms shall be provided in any language other than English or (ii) the Contract and/or the Plan shall be provided in English and another language, then, in each such case, the non-English version shall apply for information purposes only, and, in the event of any conflict between the terms of the English version and the version in any other language, then the English version shall prevail.