15. Compensation for consequential damage.

(a) for any damage sustained by him which, if caused by a private person, would not render such person liable to a suit; or
(b) for any damage caused by -
(i) any stoppage or diminution of percolation or of floods,
(ii) any deterioration of climate or soil,
(iii) any stoppage of navigation or of the means of rafting timber or watering cattle.