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Terms and
Conditions of Business |
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Definitions:
In these
conditions the following words shall have the following meaning :- |
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"The
Customer" - shall mean the person, firm or Company with whom the Company
contracts. |
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"Goods"
- Means the articles or things or service which are the subject matter of
the Contract.
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2. |
These
Conditions of Business shall apply to all sale and purchase transactions
between the Company and the Customer. No terms and conditions put forward by
the customer in conflict with these terms and conditions shall be
incorporated into the Contract unless separately agreed in writing and
signed by a director of the company. |
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2.1 |
Any
quotation submitted by the Customer is an invitation to treat not offer. The
placing of an order by the Customer orally or in writing shall constitute an
offer and a Contract shall be effected if and when such offer is accepted by
the Company and not at any earlier time. The Company will only accept offers
subject to these Conditions of Business. |
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3. |
All
times quoted for dispatch or delivery dates are estimates only and while the
Company will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure it complies with any
estimates given, the Company will not be liable for any failure to comply
with any such estimate or for any direct or consequential loss resulting
therefrom. |
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Unless
otherwise agreed in the Contract the price of goods does not include the cost of
delivery to the agreed place of delivery. The Company accepts no liability
for damage, shortage, or loss in transit where the goods does not include
the cost of delivery. Where the price of goods does include such cost, the
Company accepts no liability for damage, shortage or loss in transit unless
damages or shortages are recorded at the time of delivery on the relevant
delivery note and are confirmed in writing to the Company within 2 days,
thereafter and/or where goods are not received at all the Company is
notified in writing within 7 days of dispatch. |
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Subject
to any other provisions of these conditions, the contract may not be
cancelled without any prior written consent of the Company, which will only
be given on terms that the Company is to be indemnified against all costs
incurred up to the date of such cancellation. In the event that the Customer
cancels the contract, the customer shall as regards any goods that are the
subject of the Contract, reimburse the Company the amount or amounts of any
work undertaken, time expanded and costs incurred in connection with the
Customers order together with a reasonable profit margin. |
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All
prices quoted are the Company's prices ruling at the date the relevant
quotation is given and are based on current production costs. Orders are
accepted only on the basis that the actual price payable under the Contract
shall be the Company's price ruling at the date of the relevant invoice. If
any extra cost is incurred by reason of any additional instructions, or any
error or omissions in instructions submitted by the Customer, or if the
Customer requests any special testing of the goods or any variation of the
specification, or design of any modifications to the Goods, then the
Customer shall bear any relevant extra costs. |
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Payment
must be made at the time or times specified in the Company's quotation. If
no such time is specified then the payment for all the Goods must be made in
full within 30 days of the end of the month after the goods are due and
ready for delivery or collection and payment for any services in connection
with the goods must be made in full within 30 days after the end of the
month in which the services are performed. Where payment is agreed to be
made by instalments, any delay or failure in payment of any one instalment
shall render all the remaining instalments due forthwith. |
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You must make
all arrangements necessary to take delivery of Goods when we deliver them,
including providing labour and suitable unloading equipment for the unloading of
delivered Goods. If you do not accept delivery of Goods or we are unable to
deliver or are delayed in delivering Goods during normal working hours because
of your actions or omissions, then we may charge you and you will be liable to
pay us for all costs we incur as a result for re-delivery of the Goods. |
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Any
liability upon the Company is subject to the terms of payment and all other
obligations of the Customer being strictly observed. The customer shall not
be entitled to withhold payment of any amount payable to the Company under
any Contract or otherwise because of any disputed claim against the Company. |
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Risk or
damage to Goods shall pass to the Customer upon delivery (or upon collection
if it is agreed between the Company and the Customer, that the Company shall
not be obliged to deliver the Goods but the Customer shall collect them). |
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All
Goods are supplied to the Customer by the Company on the following terms: |
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Not
withstanding delivery, property of Goods shall remain in the Company until
the Customer has paid the price of those Goods and any sums owing from the
Customer to the Company in full, and until all such amounts are duly paid by
the Customer to the Company. |
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The
Customer shall deliver up to the Company and/or allow the Company to
re-possess the Goods upon demand and grants irrevocable right to the Company
through its employees or agents, with vehicles or otherwise, to enter at any
reasonable hour upon the Customer's premises where the Goods are kept. |
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The
Company shall be entitled without prejudice to its other rights and remedies
either to terminate wholly or in part any or every Contract between the
Company and the Customer or to suspend any further deliveries under any
Contract in any of the following events: |
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If any
sum owing from the Customer to the Company for any reason what so ever is
unpaid after the due date for payment. |
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11.2 |
If the
Customer refuses to take delivery of or to collect (as the case may be) any
goods. |
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If the
Company has any reason to doubt the credit worthiness of the Customer. |
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If the
Customer has a receiver, administrator, administrative receiver, liquidator
or other supervisor appointed over any of its assets or undertaking or if
the Company enters into any composition or arrangement with its creditors or
commits any other act of insolvency. |
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If the
Customer commits any breech of any Contract between the Company and the
Customer:
The
Company shall be entitled to exercise its rights of termination or
suspension at any time during which the event or default giving rise there
to has not ceased or been remedied and in the event of any suspension the
Company shall be entitled as a condition of resuming delivery to require
pre-payment of the price of any further delivery. |
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The Company’s
liability is limited to reimbursement of the price or repair or replacement
of the Goods or remedying any defects in any services rendered by the
Company in connection therewith. Apart from such reimbursement,
replacement, repair or remedial work the Company and its employees and
agents shall be under no liability for any injury, loss, or damage of any
kind whether direct, consequential or special and howsoever caused resulting
from or arising out of or incidental to: |
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12.1 |
Any
negligence on the part of the Company or its employees (except insofar as
the same causes death or personal injury. Or |
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The Company’s
performance of or failure to perform or breach of any of its express implied
obligations under the Contract. Or |
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12.3 |
The supply,
installation, repair and/or maintenance of any Goods. Or |
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12.4 |
Any defects
in any Goods |
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Any advice
given or representations made by the Company in relation to the quality,
performance, use or installation of the Goods or any part thereof. Not
withstanding the foregoing, where there is any defect in Goods supplied, but
not manufactured by the Company, the Customer shall (subject to compliance
by the Customer with all conditions, stipulations and provisos contained in
such guarantee or warranty and with the terms of these Conditions) be
entitled to the full benefit of any guarantee or warranty given to the
Company by the manufacturer or supplier thereof and the Company will notify
defect to such manufacturer or supplier and will attempt to procure for the
Customer the benefit of such guarantee or warranty, but the Company shall be
under no further liability to the Customer in respect of such defect. |
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The Customer
shall indemnify the Company against any liability whatsoever (including any
liability based on the negligence of the Company) which it may incur
resulting from any claim made against the Company by any third party
(including without limitation any employee or agent of the Customer or any
subsequent buyer or hirer or other bailee of the Goods or any of them)
arising or arisen directly or indirectly out of the performance or non
performance or breach of the Contract or otherwise out or connected with the
manufacture or supplier or the Goods or any of them or the provision of any
services in connection therewith. |
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The Company
accepts no liability for delay or non fulfilment of any term of the Contract
caused wholly or in part by “force majored”, which expression shall be
deemed to include war, strikes, lockouts, accidents, fire, scarcity or
materials or any other cause or causes not within the Company’s direct
control. |
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No failure or
delay on the part of the Company to exercise its rights under the Contract
shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single nor partial exercise
of any such right exclude any other or further exercise thereof. Any waiver
of a breach of any provision of the Contract shall not affect the Company’s
rights in the event of any further or additional breech or breeches. |
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Notwithstanding termination of the Contract these Conditions shall continue
in full force and effect for so long as is necessary after such termination
to give full effect to the provisions contained in these Conditions. |
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17. |
The Contract
shall be construed in accordance with English law which shall be the proper
law of the Contract and the English Court shall have sole jurisdiction in
relation to the provisions contained in these Conditions. |
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18. |
The clause
headings in these Conditions are for convenience only and shall not effect
the interpretation hereof in any way whatever. |
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19. |
Each and
every obligation contained in the clause or sub-clause of these Conditions
shall be treated as a separate obligation and shall be severally enforceable
as such and the non-enforceability at any time of the clause of sub-clause
of these Conditions shall be treated as a separate obligation and shall be
severally enforceable as such and the non-enforceability at any time of the
clause or sub-clause of these Conditions shall not prejudice the
enforceability of the remainder. |
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The Company
assumes that the Customer has complied with every applicable statute, by-law
and other requirements of the Government or any local authority. The
obtaining by the Customer of all necessary licenses, permits and consents,
that may be required is a condition precedent to the performance by the
Company or any of its obligations under the Contract. |
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These
Conditions are stipulated by the Company on its own behalf and on behalf of
all its employees and agents and apply for the protection of all its
employees and agents as for the Company. The Customer undertakes not to sue
or make any claim whatever against any employee or agent of the Company in
respect of any alleged negligence or other default of that employee or agent
in relation to the carrying out, failure to carry out or breech of any
Contract. |
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22. |
The Customer
acknowledges and agrees by placing orders with the Company that: |
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22.1 |
This is a
transaction into which both parties are freely entering. |
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22.2 |
There are
clauses contained in these Conditions which exclude, limit or modify the
liability of the Company its employees and agents. |
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22.3 |
The prices
and charges quoted in these Conditions or Business by the Company are based
on the exclusions and restrictions on liability set out in these
Conditions. On the basis that the Customer may seek to re-negotiate the
prices quoted by the Company, the Customer and the Company accept that the
exclusions and restrictions on liability referred to in these Conditions are
reasonable. |