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DEFINITIONS
In
these conditions "the Seller" means Duraweld Ltd. or its subsidiary
Company 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.
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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, but invitations to treat. 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.
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CREDIT SALES
Credit
accounts may not be opened unless and until references are
approved. Credit Sale orders are accepted subject to trade
references remaining satisfactory. Terms of payment
a)
Payments shall be due by the last day In the month following
the month the invoice is dated.
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 Installment 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 will charge
interest on delayed payments from the due date on a day to
day basis at a rate not exceeding 5 per cent above National
Westminster Bank's base lending rate from time to time in
force.
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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.
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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 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 entailed.
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DELIVERY
i)
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,
ii)Where
the Goods are not delivered by the Seller, but by an Independent
carrier delivery to the carrier shall be delivery to the Buyer.
iii)
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,
iv)
If the Buyer falls 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,
(v)
Where the Goods are delivered in instalments, each delivery
shall constitute a separate contract and failure by the Seller
to deliver any one of more of the instalments in accordance
with these Conditions or any claim by the Buyer in respect
of any one or more instalments shall not entitle the Buyer
to treat the Contract as a whole as repudiated.
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RISK AND PROPERTY
i)
Risk of damage to or loss of the Goods shall pass to the Buyer
at the point of delivery.
ii)
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 to keep the Goods insured in the amount
of the price at which the Goods are sold to the Buyer against
all insurable risks.
iii)
If Goods are destroyed by an insured risk prior to the same
being paid for by the Buyer, the Buyer shall receive the proceeds
of any such insurance as trustees for the Seller.
iv)
Notwithstanding 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.
v)
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. and insured.
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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 monies or property of the Buyer and third parties and,
in the case of tangible proceeds, properly stored, protected
(vi)
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 Sellers rights hereunder shall
extend to the altered Goods.
(vii)
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 Goods
are stored and repossess the Goods.
viii)
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.
(ix)
The Seller may maintain an action against the Buyer for payment
of the agreed price notwithstanding that the title in the
Goods has not passed to the Buyer.
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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 charge pro-rata
to be due execution of an order.
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DESIGN AND SPECIFICATIONS
It
is the Buyer's 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 infringements
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WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY
(i)
''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.
(ii)
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.
(iii)
In the case of Goods not of the Seller's manufacture, the
Seller will pass onto the Buyer any benefits obtainable under
any warranty given by the Seller's supplier provided that
the Goods have been accepted and paid for.
(iv)
In the case of any claim under this paragraph the Seller reserves
the right at its sole discretion to replace the Goods or to
credit to the Buyer, in full, the price paid by the Buyer
to the Seller.
(v)
In order to exercise rights under this paragraph the Buyer
shall return the defective Goods carriage paid to the Seller's
works,
(vi)
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.
(vii)
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.
(viii)
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
Iaw.
(ix)
The Seller shall not be liable to the Buyer by reason of any
representation, or any implied warranty, 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).
(x)
The material uses may vary from those detailed, but will be
the nearest equivalent from an alternative source of supply.
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.
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BUYERS INSTRUCTIONS AND PROPERTY
The
Seller accepts no liability for damage or loss of Buyer's
property, which is held at the 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 Buyers risk and the Seller
cannot accept any claim for loss or damage to the same.
Liability
cannot be accepted for Buyers 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
what ever 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.
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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.
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ASSIGNMENT
The
Buyer shall not, without Seller's prior written consent, assign
or purport to assign or transfer the contract to which these
Conditions relate or the benefit thereof to any other person
whomsoever.
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FORBEARANCE
No
indulgence or forbearance extended to the Buyer shall limit
or prejudice any right or claim available to the Seller.
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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).
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NOTICES
Any
notices required or permitted to be given by either party
to the other under these Conditions shall be in writing addressed
to the 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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