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To the extent that the Contractor believes it is entitled to additional payment (there can sometimes be a dispute as to what is meant by ‘additional’) then it is required to make a claim in accordance with sub-clause 20.1.

What the function of the pronoun it here? Does it refer to the contractor because the author did not know what the contractor's gender is?

Andrew Leach
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    The Contractor may be a company. – Andrew Leach Jun 08 '21 at 09:27
  • if the author did not know actually what the contractor gender is, what options he has to write as a pronoun? – Dan Jun 08 '21 at 09:30
  • If that's your actual question here, it's been asked before. – Andrew Leach Jun 08 '21 at 09:36
  • Thank you Dan for quick response, – Dan Jun 08 '21 at 09:40
  • As Andrew implies, 'it' can just about be justified, synechdoche/menonymy ... being used, but this is a strained usage in this example. More normal would be 'they' covering man/woman/people (and conveniently always taking 'believes they are'). – Edwin Ashworth Jun 08 '21 at 11:06
  • It sounds to me as if the contractor is not a sole trader but a commercial entity such as a company, in which case "it" is fine. – BillJ Jun 08 '21 at 12:56

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