Business Terms and Conditions of Sale

Application of Terms and Conditions

Orders are only accepted subject to the conditions of sale as herein printed of Arion Marine Life Ltd (herein referred to as the "Seller"). Any variation of these conditions in any document of the Buyer is inapplicable unless accepted in writing by the Seller.

Orders, Prices, Taxes and Other Duties.
(a) Orders are subject to prices ruling on the date the order is dispatched, and are subject to amendments on or after acceptance of an order without notice unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Seller.
(b) All taxes and other duties upon the production and/or delivery of the specimens shall be added to the price and shall be paid by the Buyer.

Conditions and Warranties
(a) No Conditions of Warranty is expressed or to be implied as to the life or ware of the specimens supplied, or that they will be suitable for any particular purpose or for use under any specific conditions, notwithstanding that such purpose or condition may be known or made known to the Seller.
(b) Any express or implied statement, condition or warranty statutory or otherwise, not stated herein is hereby excluded and deemed to be inconsistent herewith. No responsibility is accepted by the Seller for any damage or loss arising directly or indirectly out of specimens supplied or for any damage or loss arising by reason of any failure of the specimens to comply with the specifications. Furthermore the Seller shall be under no liability in Contract or Tort for any damage arising directly or indirectly out of the supply from us of the specimens or of the packages by which the specimens are delivered.

Defective Goods
(a) The Seller reserves the right at its sole discretion to decide whether any specimens are defective.
(b) Defective specimens will be replaced or rectified by the Seller as originally ordered, or if rectified or replacement is not practicable, the Seller will credit the value of the specimens at the invoice price provided.
(c) Claims under Sub-Clause (b) above must be made in writing to the Seller within 7 days of the date of delivery.
(d) The Seller shall not be liable for any loss, damage, or expense whatsoever and howsoever arising from any defect save as detailed in Sub-Clause (b) hereof.
(e) Defects discovered in any delivery shall not entitle the Buyer to rescind the remainder of the Contract.
(f) All transport charges arising hereunder are the responsibility of the Buyer.

Damage, Loss in Transit
The Seller does not accept any responsibility for shortages or for specimens lost or damaged in transit, unless such shortages, or loss or damage on the delivery note is specified as examined, or, if the specimens have been signed for as not examined, such shortages, loss or damage are notified within 48 hours and reported by separate notice in writing to the carriers and the Seller within 10 days or receipt of the specimens by the Buyer or the Consignee.

Delivery Commitments
(a) Delivery commitments are entered into in good faith but are not guaranteed, and the Seller shall not be liable for any loss or damage occasioned by failure to deliver on the specified date howsoever caused. Nor shall failure be deemed to be breach of the Contract, or any of its conditions, or part thereof.
(b) Refusal of the Buyer to accept part of whole delivery at the time specified in the Contract shall part permit the Seller to treat the Contract as repudiated by the Buyer and to decline to make further deliveries without prejudice to the Seller's right to recover damages for breach of Contract.
(c) Where Contracts provide for a single delivery, specimens shall be delivered and accepted as soon as ready.
(d) Where Contracts provide for deferred delivery, such delivery shall be accepted as specified in the Contract, (or as soon thereafter as ready). In the event of failure to accept any delivery, the balance remaining undelivered shall be invoiced (payment for such balance immediately thereon becoming due) and storage costs charged to the Buyer', and the specimens being held will be at the Buyer's risk.

Force Majeure
The Seller will endeavour to give delivery at the rate of within the time specified in the Contract, notwithstanding anything to the contrary expressed or implied in this Contract. The Seller shall not be liable for any loss or damage which may be sustained by the Buyer through failure on the part of the Seller to deliver at the rate of within the time specified in this Contract, for any loss or damage incurred by reason of act of God, war, riots, fires, strikes, lockouts, cessation of labour, trade disputes, breakdowns, accidents of any kind or any other cause whatsoever beyond the control of the Seller whether similar to these aforesaid or not. The Seller shall be entitled to recover all monies owing to them in respect of deliveries made or services performed prior to such failure. The time of any such suspension will be added to the time of original Contract (including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, any inability to obtain the necessary import or export licences or consents of any governmental or other authority).

Cancellation of Orders
Cancellation of an order, in whole or part, cannot be accepted without the Seller's consent in writing which shall only be given on a full indemnity given by the Buyer to the Seller.

Terms of Payment
(a) Where credit is given payment is to be made within 30 days of invoice date.
(b) Where cash discounts are granted V.A.T. is calculated on the discounted price.
(c) All express deliveries are charged extra on all orders regardless of invoice value.
(d) Interest at 2.5% per month (or part of a month) will be payable by the Buyer to the Seller on any overdue payments.
(e) If the Buyer shall fail to make any payment when it becomes due or shall enter into composition or arrangements with its creditors, or if being an incorporated company shall have a Receiver appointed or shall pass a resolution for winding up or a Court shall make an Order to that effect, or if not being an incorporated company it shall have a Receiving Order made against it or if there shall be any breach by the Buyer of any of the Terms and Conditions hereof, the Seller may, without prejudice to its other rights and remedies, defer or cancel any further deliveries.

Title
(a) The Ownership of the specimens ordered herein will only be transferred to the Buyer on payment by the Buyer.
(b) Should the Buyer remain in default of any payment for which the Buyer is liable to the Seller, the Seller reserves the right to decline to make any further deliveries irrespective of which Contract with the Buyer they spring from, and to rescind the Contract in question without judicial interposition, all this without prejudicing the Seller's right to full compensation and without prejudicing the Seller's property.
(c) The Buyer shall store all specimens delivered by the Seller but for which payment has not been made, in such a way as to be clearly separate and identifiable from the Buyer's other specimens and the Buyer hereby grants to the Seller, its servants or agents the right to enter on to the Buyer's premises for the purposes of recovering such specimens at any time until payment.
(d) Notwithstanding the above, if the Buyer shall sell any specimens delivered in such a manner as to pass to a third party a valid title to the specimens, the Buyer shall hold the proceeds of such sale on trust for the Seller; providing that nothing herein shall constitute the Buyer the agent of the Seller for the purposes of any such sub-sale and also providing that the Buyer shall not be entitled to sell such specimens after the appointment of a Receiver to its property, or it has been placed in liquidation, or, not being a company, has committed an act of bankruptcy.
(e) The Buyer shall assume the risk of loss or damage to the specimens from the date of delivery and must accordingly reply on its own insurance from that date.
(f) Any specimens supplied to the Buyer which are subject to restrictions or provisions imposed by

Law Applicable
Every Contract shall be governed in all respects by the Laws of England.