17. CIRCUMSTANCES BEYOND THE CONTROL OF THE BANK

(a) the Bank shall bear no liability for inability to perform its obligations with regard to the ATM operations due to anything whatsoever outside the control of the Bank; and

(b) the Bank shall not be liable if it is unable to perform its obligations due (directly or indirectly) to but not limited to the failure of any machine, data processing system or transmissions link or to industrial dispute, strikes, lock outs, acts of any public enemy, wars, blockades, insurrections, riots, epidemics, landslides, lighting, earthquakes, fires, storms, flood, civil disturbances, terrorisms, governmental regulations and directions and anything outside the direct control of the Bank, its agents or sub contractors.