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GENERAL
1.0
All quotations are given and all orders accepted
on these terms which supersede any other terms
appearing in the Seller's catalogue or elsewhere
and override and exclude any other terms
stipulated or incorporated or referred to by the
Buyer, whether in the order or in any negotiations
and any course hereafter made by the Buyer shall
be deemed to be made subject to these terms.
1.02
Subject to clause 2 below, contract for the sale
of the goods specified overleaf ("the Goods)
shall be concluded until the Seller has issued an
acknowledgement of order' form.
1.03
The Buyer acknowledges that there are no
representations outside these terms which have
induced him to enter into the contract (which
expression shall include any contract of which
these terms form part) and these terms and those
of the face hereof shall constitute the entire
understanding between the parties for the sale of
the Goods.
1.04
No modification of these terms shall be effective
unless made by an express written agreement
between the parties. The signing by the Seller of
any of the Buyer's documentation shall not imply
any modification of these terms.
1.04 No modification of these terms shall be
effective unless made by an express written
agreement between the parties. The signing by the
Seller of any of the Buyer's documentation shall
not imply any modification of these terms.
2.
QUOTATIONS
Quotations
and tenders are subject to withdrawal at any time
before receipt of an unqualified order from the
Buyer and shall be deemed to be withdrawn unless
so accepted within 28 days from their date.
3.
THE GOODS
3.01
All descriptions, specifications and illustrations
contained in the Seller's catalogues, price lists,
quotations and advertisements or otherwise
communicated to the Buyer are intended merely to
present a general idea of the Goods described
therein and nothing contained in any of them shall
form part contract. Designs may be altered at any
time.
3.02
Notwithstanding that a simple of the Goods may
have been exhibited to and inspected by the Buyer
it is herby agreed that such sample was so
exhibited and inspected solely to enable the Buyer
to judge for himself the quality of the bulk and
not so as to constitute a sale by sample. The
Buyer shall take the Goods at his own risk as to
their corresponding with the said sample or as to
their quality condition of sufficiency for any
purpose.
4.
THE PRICE
4.01
The seller reserves the right to increase the
price of goods at any time before delivery by the
amount equivalent to any increase which may have
risen in the cost to the seller of manufacturing
or acquiring or insuring the Goods and to levy a
minimum order charge for small value orders
4.02
The Buyer will be provided with the Seller's
standard instruction books and drawings relevant
to the Goods but the supply of specially prepared
drawings or instructions can be provided at the
extra cost of the Buyer.
4.03
The Buyer shall be responsible for any extra costs
arising from the amendment of an acknowledged
order.
4.04
All prices are quoted ex-works, and where the
Seller has undertaken to provide or arrange
carriage form its works to the place of delivery
specified by the Buyer, such carriage shall be
charged in addition to the price unless expressly
agreed by the Seller in writing.
Carriage
and packing will be charged as follows:
(a)
Home deliveries: The Seller's standard carriage
and packing cost will be charged for all orders.
These charges will be applied unless otherwise
agreed in writing. Any special packing
requirements will be charged extra at costs.
(b)
Export Deliveries Packing. All orders will be
subject to a U.K. port F.O.B, unless otherwise
stated (Except Northern Ireland) representing a
percentage of gross order value. A price expressed
as F.O.B. will be inclusive of standard packing
but any special carriage or packing requirements
will be charged for extra, at cost and charges for
air freight shipments shall be in accordance with
our charges for Air Freight Shipment Sheet for the
time being in force.
4.05
If the Seller shall incur extra cost owing to
suspensions of the work on the Buyer's
instructions or lack of instructions or owing to
interruptions, delays, overtime, unusual hours,
mistakes including work for which we are not
responsible, such extra cost shall be added to the
price and paid for accordingly.
5.
CANCELLATION
The
Buyer may not cancel the contract without the
consent of the seller. When given, it shall be
deemed to be on the express conditions that the
buyer shall indemnify the seller against all loss,
damage, claims or actions arising out of such
cancellations unless otherwise agreed in writing.
6.
PAYMENT
6.01
Unless otherwise agreed, the Goods are sold
subject to payment within 28 days from invoice
date. The Seller shall not be bound to give up
possession of the Goods until it shall have
received payment and the Seller shall be deemed to
have made sufficient tender of the Goods if it
shall notify the Buyer that the Goods are ready
for dispatch subject to payment.
6.02
If the Seller shall allow provisional credit in
respect of any part of the Goods, it shall be
without prejudice to its rights to refuse to give
up possession of any other part of Goods except
against payment; and the whole of the price of all
Goods bought or agreed to be bought by the Buyer
shall fall due and payable without demand
immediately on the happening of any of the
following events:
a)
Failure by the Buyer to pay any sum due to the
Seller by the due date for payment.
(b)
Commencement of winding up of the Buyer.
(c)
Commission by the Buyer of an Act of Bankruptcy.
(d)
Appointment of a receiver of any assert of the
Buyer, or the levying of any distress or execution
on any asset of the Buyer.
6.03
The failure of the Buyer to pay any part of the
price of the Goods in due time shall entitle the
Seller to treat such failure as a repudiation of
the whole contract by the Buyer and to recover
damages for such breach of contract.
6.04
Interest on all sums due shall run at the rate of
5 per cent per annum over the current base rate of
Royal Bank of Scotland until payment is received
as well as before any judgement therefore.
6.05
Payment shall be made in sterling at the office of
the seller or otherwise directed.
7.
DELIVERY
7.01
All delivery dates are estimated only and the time
of delivery shall not be the essence of the
contract. In no circumstances shall the Seller be
liable to compensate the Buyer in damages or
otherwise for non-delivery or late delivery of the
Goods or any of them for whatever reason or for
any loss consequential or otherwise arising there
from.
7.02 Should the Seller be prevented or hindered in
delivering the Goods or any part thereof by reason
of war, riot, explosion, fire, flood, strike,
lock-out, shortage of materials or labour or any
cause beyond the seller's control, the time for
delivery shall be extended by a period equal to
that during which the cause preventing or
hindering delivery exists.
7.03 Should the Seller be prevented form
delivering part of the Goods by the reason of any
of the cause specified in the preceding
sub-clause, the Seller shall deliver and the Buyer
shall take and pay for such part the Goods as the
Seller shall be able to deliver in accordance with
the contract.
7.04
The Seller shall be entitled to deliver the Goods
in one or more consignments unless otherwise
expressly agreed.
7.05
If the delivery of any item comprised in the Goods
has not been made within 6 months of the estimated
delivery date, the Buyer shall be entitled to
cancel its order in respect of that item, but the
Seller shall in no circumstance be liable to
compensate the buyer in damages or otherwise for
late delivery or non-delivery of the Goods or any
of them for whatever reason or for any loss
consequential or otherwise arising there from.
7.06
Delivery shall be deemed to take place when the
Goods are dispatched from the Seller's works.
7.07
The Seller shall not be liable for any loss of any
kind to the Buyer arising from any damages to the
Goods occurring after the risk has passed to the
Buyer however caused, nor shall any liability of
the Buyer to the Seller be diminished or
extinguished by reason of such loss.
7.08
If the Buyer fails or neglects to pay for the
Goods within the time specified in clause 6.01,
the Seller may as agent for the Buyer but without
surrendering its lien as an unpaid Seller, arrange
for the Goods to be stored at the Seller's works
or elsewhere, and the Buyer will pay and hereby
indemnifies the Seller against all storage
charges, insurance, demurrage or other cost
expenses and the charges arising from the Buyer's
failure or neglect.
8.
PASSING OF RISK AND PROPERTY
8.01
The Goods shall be at the risk of the Buyer as
soon as delivery has taken place (as defined in
clause 7.06 above).
8.02
Notwithstanding delivery and the passing of risk
in the Goods, or any other provisions of these
conditions, the property in Goods shall not pass
to the Buyer until the Seller has received in cash
or cleared funds payment in full of the price of
the Goods (together with any interest; value added
tax and any other additional charges, if
applicable, payable in respect thereof) and all
other Goods agreed to be sold by the Seller to the
Buyer which payment is then due.
8.03
Until such time as the property in the Goods
passes to the Buyer, the Buyer shall hold the
Goods as the Seller's fiduciary agent and bailee,
and shall keep the Goods separate from those of
the Buyer and third parties and properly stored,
protected and insured and identified as the
Seller's property. The Buyer shall not be entitled
to resell or use the Goods in the ordinary course
of its business, but if it shall do so it shall
account to the Seller for the proceeds of sale or
otherwise of the Goods, whether tangible or
intangible, including insurance proceeds, and
shall hold all such proceeds on trust for the
Seller and keep them separate from any monies or
property of the Buyer and third parties and, in
case of tangible proceeds stored, protected and
insured.
8.04
Until such time as property in the Goods passes to
the Buyer (and provided the Goods are still in
existence and have not been resold) the Seller
shall be entitled at any time to require the Buyer
to deliver up the Goods to the Seller and, if the
Buyer fails to so forthwith to enter upon any
premises of the Buyer or any third party where the
goods are stored and repossess the Goods, All cost
incurred by the Seller or its agents in
repossessing the Goods shall be borne by the
Buyer.
8.05
Notwithstanding the repossession of the Goods, the
Buyer shall remain liable to pay the Seller an
amount equal to all losses, cost, damage and
expenses incurred by the Seller directly or
indirectly as a result of the Buyer's default.
8.06
The Buyer shall not be entitled to pledge or in
any way charge by way of security for any
indebtedness any of the Goods which remain the
property of the Seller, but if the Buyer does so,
all moneys owing by the Buyer to the Seller shall
(without prejudice to any other right or remedy of
the Seller) forthwith become due and payable.
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INSPECTION OF GOODS
9.01
The Buyer shall inspect the Goods immediately on
receipt thereof and shall within three days give
notice to the Seller in detail of any ground on
which the Buyer alleges that the Goods are not in
accordance with the contract or are defective in
material or workmanship. If the Buyer fails give
such notice, the Goods shall be conclusive resumed
to be in all respects in accordance with the
contract, and the Buyer shall be deemed to have
accepted the Goods accordingly. In the event that
the Buyer establishes to the Seller's reasonable
satisfaction that the Goods are not in accordance
with the contact the Buyer's sole remedy in
respect of such non-accordance shall be limited as
the Seller may be elect to the return or
replacement of the Goods.
9.02 If the Goods are lost or damaged in transit,
the Buyer must notify the carrier in writing by
post, telex, telegram or by hand, of loss or
damage within three working days after actual
delivery.
10.0
USE OF GOODS
10.01
Where the Goods have been manufactured or
constructed, according to designs or
configurations or by processes specified or
supplied by the Buyer, the Buyer represents and
warrants to the Seller that the Buyer has or will
have satisfied itself that all necessary test and
examinations have been made or will be made prior
to the Goods being brought into use to ensure that
the Goods are designed, constructed and
operational so as to be safe without risk to
health of safety of workmen or others using them,
and that it will take such steps as are necessary
to secure that there will be available in
connection with the use of the Goods at work,
adequate information about the use for which they
are designed and have been tested and about any
conditions necessary to ensure that when put to
use they will be safe and without risk to health.
10.02
The Buyer shall indemnify the Seller against all
actions, suits, claims, demands, losses, charges,
cost and expenses which the Seller may suffer or
incur in connection with any claim by any third
party alleging facts which if established would
evidence a breach of the undertakings,
representations and warranties on the part of the
Buyer contained in this clause 10.
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DEFECTS AFTER DELIVERY
11.01
The Seller will make good, by repair or at the
Seller's option by the supply of replacement,
defects which under proper use appear in such part
or parts of the Goods as are of the Seller's
manufacturing within a period of 12 months after
the Goods have been delivered and arise solely
from faulty materials or workmanship, provided
always that defective parts are promptly returned
by the Buyer, carriage paid to the Seller's works
and become the property of the Seller if replaced.
11.02
(a) Where part of any piece of equipment is found
to be defective and such part is capable of being
repaired or replaced, the warranty in clause 11.01
shall not mean the whole of such piece of
equipment is defective.
(b)
Repaired or replacement parts shall be covered by
the warranty only for the outstanding period of
the warranty on the Goods initially delivered.
(c)
If any Goods have in the Seller's opinion been
maltreated so as to cause damage or altered or
used or repaired otherwise than in the accordance
with the Seller's instructions then the Seller
reserves the right to refuse to repair or replace
such Goods.
(d)
In case of any part or parts, not of the Seller's
manufacture the Buyer is only entitled to such
benefits as the Seller may receive under any
guarantee given to the Seller by sub-contractors
in respect thereof.
11.03
These terms set out the Seller's entire liability
in respect of the Goods, and the Seller's
liability under these terms shall be in lieu and
to the exclusion to other warranties, conditions,
terms and liabilities express or implied,
statutory or otherwise in respect of the quality
or fitness for any particular purpose of Goods or
otherwise howsoever notwithstanding any advice or
representation to the Buyer's, all liability in
respect of which howsoever arising is expressly
exclude, except any implied by law which by law
cannot be excluded. Save as provided in these
terms except as aforesaid the Seller shall not be
under liability in contract, tort or otherwise in
respect of defects in the Goods or failure to
correspond to specifications or sample for any
injury, damage or loss resulting from such defects
or failure or from any work done in connection
therewith.
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LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY
The
Seller's liability (if any) whether in contract,
tort or otherwise in respect of any defect in the
Goods or for any breach of this Agreement or of
any duty owed to the Buyer in connection herewith
shall be further limited in the aggregate to the
price of the Goods in question.
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INDEMNITY
The
Buyer shall indemnify the Seller in respect of all
damage, injury or loss occurring to any person or
property and against all actions, suits, claims,
demands, charges or expense in connection
therewith arising from the condition or use of the
Goods in the event (and to extent that the damage,
injury or loss shall have been occasioned partly
or wholly by the carelessness of the Buyer or his
servants or agents by any breach by the buyer of
its obligations to the Seller hereunder).
14.
PATENTS, TRADE MARK ETC,
CUSTOM BUILT EQUIPMENT
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All documents, drawings and designs published and
supplied by us are copyright and may not be
reproduced or disclosed to third parties other
than the ultimate user.
14.02
The Goods are sold subject to the right of any
persons, whether in respect of any patent,
trademarks, registered design, copyright,
confidential disclosure or otherwise howsoever to
prevent or restrict the sale or use of Goods in
any part of the world and the Buyer will in this
respect accept such title to the Goods as the
Seller may have.
14.03
Where the goods have been manufactured or
constructed according to designs or configurations
or by process specified or supplied by the Buyer,
the Buyer represents and warrants to the Seller
that the Goods as so designed or configured and
any process so used do not infringe the rights of
any person, whether in respect of any patent,
trade mark, registered design, copyright,
confidential disclosure or otherwise howsoever to
prevent or restrict the sale or use of the Goods
or the use of such processes in any part of the
world. The Buyer shall indemnify the Seller
against all actions, suits, claims, demands,
losses, charges, cost and expenses which the
Seller may suffer or incur in connection with any
claim by any third party alleging facts which if
established would evidence a breach of their
representations and warranties contained in this
clause 14.03.
15
ARBITRATION
All
disputes, differences or questions arise out of
the contract
16
PROPER LAW
The
contract shall be governed by and interpreted in
accordance with English Law, and subject to the
provisions of clause 15, the Buyer submits to the
jurisdiction of the High Court of Justice in
England but the Seller may enforce the Contract in
any court of complete jurisdiction.
17.
ASSIGNMENT
The
Buyer shall not assign any benefit under the
contract without the consent in writing of the
Seller, which may, if given, be on such terms as
to guarantee or indemnity or otherwise as the
Seller thinks fit.
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NOTICES
Any
notice given under pursuant to the contract may be
sent by hand or by post or by registered post or
by recorded delivery service or transmitted by
telex, telemessage or other means of
telecommunication resulting in the receipt of
written communication in permanent form and if so
sent or transmitted to the address of the party
shown on the face hereof, or to such other address
as the party may be notice to the other have
substituted therefore shall be deemed effectively
given on the day when in the ordinary course of
the means of transmission it would first be
received by the address in normal business hours.
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