| In these conditions
'Seller' refers to Ockenden Timber and 'Buyer' refers to the
customer or individual firm/company to whom a quotation is addressed or
whose order is accepted by the Seller. These conditions shall
apply in respect of all Contracts ('Contract') between the
Seller and Buyer for the purchase of goods or services from the
Seller. No other conditions are incorporated or implied into any
Contract between the Buyer and the Seller.
Application Of Conditions
1. All quotations, offers
and tenders are made subject to the following conditions. Except
as otherwise provided in these conditions, all other terms,
conditions or warranties are excluded from any Contract between
the Seller and the Buyer unless expressly accepted in writing by
the Seller.
Delivery
2.(a) Time for delivery of
the goods and completion of the services is given as accurately
as possible but is not guaranteed. Except where otherwise
agreed, the Seller shall deliver to the Buyer's premises stated
in the Buyer's order. The seller accepts no liability, subject
to condition 6, unless delivery is more than 14 days late and
the Buyer has notified the Seller of such non-delivery in
writing. The Buyer shall have no right to cancel the Contract
for failure to meet any delivery or completion time stated.
(b) Failure
by the Buyer to take delivery of any one of more installments of
goods delivered in accordance with the Contract shall entitle
the Seller to terminate the Contract either in whole or
part.
Price And Payment
3.(a) The price for the
services or each delivery of goods will be the Seller's price
ruling for the goods at the date of delivery or at the date of
completion of the services or, in the event of the Seller
requiring payment before delivery of the goods or services, at
the date on which payment is due.
(b) All
prices (which unless otherwise specifically stated are inclusive
of VAT and any other applicable taxes, and do not include
postage and packing charges) are net and are not subject to any
discount. Unless an earlier date is specified by the Seller,
payment is due and shall be made in cash at the Seller's offices
by the 30th day of the month following the month of delivery of
the goods or services.
Credit
4. The Seller reserves the
right, at any time, to withhold credit facilities or to limit
the amount or period of credit it will grant to Buyer.
Returns
5.(a) In the unlikely
event that the Buyer is unhappy with an order the Seller can
only offer a refund if notified within 7 days of
the Buyer receiving the order. All items must be returned in
their original packaging and be in a saleable condition. Please note that all shipping charges are non-refundable.
(b) In
the highly unlikely event that an item sent to the Buyer is
found to be faulty, it may send it back to the Seller for a
replacement. The Seller will refund the cost of sending the item
back, but the Buyer must send it using the specified method.
(c) All
returns for unwanted or damaged/faulty goods must be confirmed
by the Seller before the Buyer sends them back.
Guarantee
6.(a) Except as otherwise
provided in these conditions section 12 of the Sales of Goods
Act 1979 is implied into the Contract.
(b) The goods
supplied by the Seller shall be in accordance with the
specification supplied by the Seller (if any) and shall be of
satisfactory quality but are not tested or sold as fit for any
particular purpose unless specifically agreed in writing by the
Seller. The services shall also conform to the specification
supplied by the Seller (if any) and be carried out with all
reasonable care and skill.
(c) If the
condition of the goods or services is such as might or would
(subject to these conditions) entitle the Buyer to claim
damages, to repudiate the Contract or to reject the goods or
services the Buyer must first ask the Seller to repair the goods
or supply substitute goods or services and the Seller shall then
be entitled at its option to repair or supply satisfactory
substitute goods or services free of cost and within a
reasonable time or to repay the price of the goods or services
in respect of which the complaint is made.
(d) If the
Seller does so repair or supply satisfactory substitute goods or
services or effect repayment under condition 6.(c), the buyer
shall be bound to accept such repaired or substituted goods or
services and the Seller shall be under no further liability in
respect of any loss or damage of whatever nature arising in
relation to those goods or services.
Liability
7.(a) Nothing contained in
these Conditions shall limit or restrict the Seller's liability
for death or personal injury caused as a result of the Seller's
negligence, nor does the Seller limit or restrict its liability
for fraudulent misrepresentation under the Misrepresentation Act
1967.
(b) Where the
Seller delivers goods and containers/packing to the Buyer, the
point of delivery will be the delivery vehicle side and the
Seller accepts no liability whatsoever for any losses, costs or
other claims in connection with the transfer of goods and
containers/packing form the vehicle side to the Buyer's storage
location.
(c) Where the
Seller delivers the goods to the Buyer the Seller ensures that
all packaging in the form of bags, drums, boxes, carboys etc.
are substitute to protect the goods from damage during delivery.
The Seller can accept no liability for any loss or damage caused
where such packaging is used for the further transportation of
the goods or other unconnected goods and the Buyer must satisfy
them self that the goods are safely packaged for such
transportation.
(d) Unless
the Seller has specifically confirmed to the Buyer that the
goods are suitable to be mixed with any other goods, the Seller
accepts no liability for admixture of the goods with any other
goods and it shall be the Buyer's sole and entire responsibility
to ensure that the Sellers liability shall not exceed the
Contract price of goods. The price of the goods is based on the
assumption that the liability of the seller is as set out
herein.
Risk
8. The risk in the goods
shall remain with the Seller until dispatch, at which time the
risk in the goods shall be transferred to the Buyer.
Reservation Of Title
9.(a) Ownership of goods
(including packaging) delivered under this Contract shall remain
with the Seller until payment in full has been made to the
Seller for all monies owning in respect of all goods and
services and packaging delivered to the Buyer by the Seller
whether under this or any other Contract or account.
(b) If any
payment is overdue, whether under this or any other Contract
between the Seller and the Buyer or the Buyer enters or
threatens to enter any insolvency arrangement or procedure
(including, but not limited to administrative receivership or
liquidation), the Seller may, without prejudice to any of its
other rights, recover or recall any or all the goods including
packaging which the Seller retains title to by virtue of
condition 9.(a) and may whether by itself or by agents duly
appointed enter upon the Buyer's premises for that purpose.
(c) Notwithstanding
that title to the goods (including packaging) has not passed to
the Buyer, the Seller should be entitled to maintain an action
for the price of the goods and/or packaging. Each paragraph or
sub-paragraph of this condition is separate, severable and
distinct.
Termination
10. The Seller shall be
entitled forthwith to terminate any Contract between it and the
Buyer by written notice if the Buyer fails to pay any invoice in
accordance with these conditions, where thee control of the
Buyer changes during the period of the Contract or where the
Buyer commits any continuing or material breach of these
conditions of sale or makes any composition with its creditors
or suffers any distress or execution to be levied upon its
assets or is wound up either compulsorily or voluntarily or
suffers a receiver of any of its assets to be appointed or
otherwise ceases or threatens to cease to carry on business.
Force Majeure
11. The Seller shall have
the right to cancel or delay performance of the service or
deliveries of the goods if it is prevented from or hindered in
or delayed in manufacturing or delivering the goods or services
or any part thereof through any circumstances beyond it
reasonable control, including but not limited to war, riot,
government requisitions of any kind, suspension or loss of means
of transport, strikes, lock outs, labour disputes, fire,
explosion, flood, accident, failure of any third party to supply
the Seller, breakdown of machinery or anything directly or
indirectly interfering with the raw materials or the
manufacture, supply, shipment, arrival or delivery of the goods.
During any such period of cancellation, the Buyer shall have the
right to purchase elsewhere at there own risk and cost such
quantities of the goods or services as may be necessary.
Law And Jurisdiction
12. The Contract shall be
governed and interpreted according to the law of England and
shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the English Courts. |