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.