Conditions of Sale
1. DEFINITIONS
In these conditions ‘the Seller’ means AMBROPLASTICS
LTD and ‘the Buyer’ means the person or company
to whom this document is addressed.
Goods – means the goods which the Seller is to supply
in accordance with these conditions.
Conditions – means the standard terms and conditions
of sale set out in this document and (unless the context
otherwise requires) includes conditions agreed in writing
between the Buyer and the Seller.
Contract – means the contract for the purchase and sale of the goods.
2. FORMATION OF CONTRACT
a) All sales are subject to these conditions as modified
by any special terms overleaf or agreed in writing but
excluding any and all printed terms of purchase proposed
by the Buyer which are inconsistent with these conditions.
b) Quotations are not offers. No contract shall result until
the Buyer’s order has been accepted by the Seller in
writing.
c) All verbal acceptances of order are deemed made subject
to these Conditions of Sale.
d) All assurances given or terms discussed before order or
arising from previous transactions shall take effect as part
of this Contract or as collateral warranty or contract, nor
shall they bind the Seller in any other way, unless repeated
in the Seller’s quotation and set out clearly in the
Buyer’s written order.
e) No statement, description, information warranty, condition
or recommendation contained in any catalogue, price list,
advertisement or communication or made verbally by any of
the agents or employees of the Seller shall be construed
to enlarge, vary or override in any way any of these conditions.
f) The Seller’s employees or agents are not authorised
to make any representations concerning the Goods unless confirmed
by the Seller in writing. In entering into the Contract the
Buyer acknowledges that it does not rely on, and waives any
claim for breach of any such representations which are not
so confirmed.
3. CREDIT SALES
Credit accounts may not be opened unless and until references are approved.
Credit sale orders are accepted to trade references remaining satisfactory.
Terms of Payment
a) Payment shall be due by 30 days after the invoice date.
b) The price of the goods shall be due in full to the Seller
and the Buyer shall not be entitled to exercise any set-off,
lien or any other similar claim.
c) If the goods are delivered in instalments, the Seller
shall be entitled to invoice each instalment as and when
delivery thereof has been made and payment shall be due in
respect of each instalment whereof delivery has been made,
not withstanding any non-delivery or other default on the
part of the Seller.
d) If upon the terms applicable to any order, the price shall
be payable by instalments or if the Buyer has agreed to take
specified quantities of the goods at specified times, a default
by the buyer in the payment of any due instalment or the
failure to give delivery instructions in respect of any quantity
of goods outstanding shall cause the whole of the balance
of the price to become due forthwith.
e) In addition to its other remedies, the Seller reserves
the right to charge interest on delayed payments from the
due date on a day to day basis at a rate not exceeding 5
per cent above Bank of England minimum lending rate from
time to time in force.
4. PRICES AND VALIDITY
Subject to the express provisions of any quotations, prices are quoted ex works
and are valid for no longer than 30 days after despatch of quotation. When
not specifically quoted for work is carried out and goods are supplied at
our charges current at the date of execution or despatch respectively. Value
Added tax or any other Government tax or levy shall be payable on sales where
appropriate in addition to the price.
5. COST VARIATION
Quoted prices are subject to amendment before or after acceptance to meet any
rise in cost of particular materials or components specified by the Buyer.
Alterations
Amendments instituted by the Buyer and resulting in further work having to
be done may incur an additional charge appropriate to the extra work and any
other additional costs entailed.
Expedited Delivery
When work is rearranged at the Buyer’s request for delivery sooner than
the quoted time, a charge may be made for overtime and any additional costs
so incurred.
6. DELIVERY
a) Any dates quoted for delivery of the Goods are approximate
only and the Seller shall not be liable for any delay in
delivery of the Goods howsoever caused. Time of delivery
shall not be of the essence of the contract unless expressly
so stipulated in writing. If delivery is delayed by strikes,
lockouts, fire, accidents, defective materials, delays
in receipt of raw materials or bought in goods or components,
or any other cause beyond the reasonable control of the
Seller a reasonable extension of time for delivery shall
be granted and the buyer shall pay such reasonable extra
charges as shall have been occasioned by the delay.
b) Where the goods are not delivered by the Seller, but by
an independent carrier, delivery to the carrier shall be
delivery to the Buyer.
c) The Buyer shall note any claim for short delivery and/or
damage to goods on the delivery schedule at the time of delivery
and shall confirm such claims in writing to the Head Office
within three working days from the date of delivery. Compliance
with this requirement shall be a condition precedent to any
claim for short delivery and/or damaged goods. If short delivery
does take place, the customer undertakes not to reject the
goods but to accept the goods delivered as a part performance
of the contract.
d) If the Buyer fails to take delivery on the agreed delivery
date or, if no specific delivery date has been agreed, when
the goods are ready for despatch, the Seller shall be entitled
to store and insure the goods and to charge the Buyer the
reasonable costs of so doing and to tender its account for
the price under condition 4.
7. RISK AND PROPERTY
a) Risk of damage to or loss of the Goods shall pass to the
Buyer at the point of delivery.
b) As the insurable risk in the Goods shall pass to the buyer
as soon as the Goods are delivered to him or
to his order and pending disposal they must keep the Goods insured in the amount
of the price at
which the Goods are sold to the Buyer against all insurable risks.
c) If Goods are destroyed by an insured risk prior to the same being paid for
the by the Buyer, the Buyer
shall receive the proceeds of any such insurance as trustee for the Seller.
d) Notwithstanding the delivery and the passing of risk in the Goods, or any
other provision of these
conditions, the property in the 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 and all other goods
agreed to be sold by
the Seller to the Buyer for which payment is then due.
e) 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. Until
that time the Buyer shall be entitled to resell or use the Goods in the ordinary
course of its business,
but shall account to the Seller for the proceeds of sale or otherwise of the
Goods whether tangible or
intangible, including insurance proceedings and shall keep all such proceeds
separate from any
moneys or property of the Buyer and third parties and, in the case of tangible
proceeds, properly
stored, protected and insured.
f) Should the Buyer alter the Goods by subjecting them to any manufacturing
process or incorporating
them into another product or mixing them in any way then the resulting product
(“altered goods”)
will pass into the ownership of the Seller until payment due under all contracts
between the Seller and
the Buyer has been made In full and all the Seller’s rights hereunder
shall extend to the altered good
g) Until such time as the 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 do so forthwith, to
enter upon any premises of the Buyer or any third party where
the Gods are stored and repossess the Goods.
h) 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.
i) The Seller may maintain an action against the Buyer for
payment of the agreed price not withstanding
that title in the Goods has not passed to the Buyer.
8. MANUFACTURING QUANTITIES
In the manufacture of Goods to the Buyer’s specification,
the right is reserved to consider a variation not exceeding
10 per cent of the exact nominated quantity and charged pro-rate
to be due execution of an order.
9. DESIGN AND SPECIFICATIONS
It is the Buyers responsibility to ensure that all approvals
have been granted before manufacture
commences and to satisfy itself that specifications are correct.
The Buyer warrants that manufacture to his order will not
involve the Seller in the infringement of patent, registered
design or trademark or
other right and will indemnify the Seller against all claims,
costs and expenses incurred by any such
infringement.
10. WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY
a) “Conditions” – means the standard terms
and conditions of purchase set out in this document and (unless
the context otherwise requires) includes any special terms
and conditions agreed in writing between the buyer and the
Seller.
“
Contract” – means the Contract for the purchase
and sale of the Goods.
”
Goods” – means the Goods which the Seller is
to supply in accordance with these Conditions.
b) As the Goods may be used for a multiplicity of purposes
and in a multiplicity of ways over which the
Seller has no control, all conditions or warranties, express, implied by statute
or otherwise, as to their
fitness for any particular purpose are hereby excluded.
c) In the case of Goods not of the Seller’s manufacture, the Seller will
pass on to the Buyer any benefits
obtainable under any warranty given by the Seller’s supplier provided
that the Goods have been
accepted and paid for.
d) In the case of any claim under this paragraph the Seller reserves the right
at its sole discretionto
replace the Goods or to credit to the Buyer, in full, the price paid by the
Buyer to the seller.
e) In order to exercise its rights under this paragraph, the Buyer shall return
the defective goods carriage
paid to the Seller’s works.
f) Nothing herein shall impose any liability on the Seller in respect of any
defect in the Goods arising out of the acts, omissions, negligence or default
of the Buyer, its servants or agents, including in particular
but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, any failure by the
Buyer to comply with any
recommendations of the seller as to storage and handling of the goods.
g) Where the goods are for delivery by instalment, any defect in any instalment
shall not be a ground for
cancellation of the remaining instalments and the Buyer shall be bound to accept
delivery thereof.
h) Subject as expressly provided in these Conditions and except where the Goods
are sold to a person
dealing as a consumer (within the meaning of the Unfair Contract Terms Act
1977), all warranties,
conditions or other terms implied by statute or common law are excluded to
the full extent permitted
by law.
i) The Seller shall not be liable to the Buyer by reason of any representation,
or any implied warranty,
condition or other terms, or any duty at common law, condition or other term,
or any duty at common
law, or under the express terms of the contract, for any consequential loss
or damage (whether for loss of profit or otherwise.
11. TOOLS
Tools, dies and drawings made for the manufacture of Goods
to be supplied to the Buyer shall remain
the property of the Seller even though the Buyer may have
been charged with a sum in respect of the
cost of such, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Seller.
12. BUYERS INSTRUCTIONS AND PROPERTY
The Seller accepts no liability for damage or loss of Buyer’s property,
which is held at Buyer’s risk.
Every care will be taken to secure the best results, but responsibility will
not be accepted for
imperfect work caused by defects or unsuitability of materials supplied by
the Buyer. Additional cost
due to the delay or impaired production caused by late delivery, poor quality
or packing may be
charged to the Buyer. Buyer’s tools, fixtures, etc. are used at Buyer’s
risk and the Seller cannot
accept any claim for loss or damage to the same.
Liability cannot be accepted for Buyer’s materials or its processing
where subsequent use shows that
the material is unsuitable for the purpose.
All such materials, together with drawings, artwork, samples and whatever information
is required
from a Buyer must be received at due time to avoid interference with other
contracted work. Prices
and completion dates quoted are dependent on unimpeded progress and delivery
of complete order.
13. SAMPLES
Samples, illustrations, drawings, etc., accompanying our
quotations are to be regarded as approximate
only and are not binding us in detail unless expressly said
to be so in our quotation. Customers
alterations and additional proofs necessitated thereby shall
be charged extra.
14. ASSIGNMENT
The Buyer shall not, without Seller’s prior written
consent, assign or transfer or purport to assign or
transfer the contract to which these Conditions relate or
the benefit thereof to any other person
whomsoever.
15. FORBEARANCE
No indulgence or forbearance extended to the Buyer shall
limit or prejudice any right or claim
available to Seller.
16. LAW
English Law shall be the proper law of the contract and all
claims under the contract shall be settled by reference
to the English legal system. (All disputes between the
parties shall be resolved by arbitration by an arbitrator
to be agreed by the parties, or, in default of agreement,
to be appointed by the President of the chartered Institute
of Arbitrators.)
17. NOTICES
Any notices required or permitted to be given by either party
to the other under these Conditions shall
be in writing addressed to that other party at its registered
office or principal place of business or such
other address as may at the relevant time have been notified
pursuant to this provision to the party
giving the notice.
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