1.7  No contractual status

These NCPs for Economic Infrastructure set out the commercial principles that will inform the drafting of the project agreement. However, the project agreement must be read as a stand alone document. Accordingly, these NCPs for Economic Infrastructure and the guidance materials that underpin them, do not have any contractual status and will not actually form part of the project agreement (whether by implication or otherwise) unless the parties expressly acknowledge in the project agreement that they do.