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1. DEFINITIONS In these Conditions (unless the context otherwise requires): (1) the Company" means World Ideas Limited and also (where the context so permits) its assigns and any sub-contractor; (2) "Goods" means the goods (or any instalment or part of them) to be supplied pursuant to the Contract; (3) the Buyer" means the person, firm or company with whom the Contract is made; (4) "Company's Premises" means the premises mentioned in the Company's quotation or other contractual document in respect of the Goods or if not so mentioned means the Company's premises from which the Goods have been despatched; (5) the Contract" means the contract between the Buyer and the Company for the sale and purchase of the Goods; (6) words in the singular shall include the plural and vice versa, references to any gender shall include the others and references to legal persons shall include natural persons and vice versa; (7) the headings in these Conditions are intended for reference only and shall not affect their construction. 2. GENERAL (1) These Conditions shall apply to the Contract to the exclusion of any other terms and conditions contained or referred to in any order, letter, form of contract or other communication sent by the Buyer to the Company and the provisions of these Conditions shall prevail unless expressly varied in writing and signed by a director on the Company's behalf. (2) Any concession made or latitude allowed by the Company to the Buyer shall not affect the strict rights of the Company under the Contract (3) If in any particular case any of these Conditions shall be or be held to be invalid or shall not apply to the Contract the other Conditions shall continue in full force and effect. 3. ORDERS Notwithstanding that the Company may have given a detailed quotation no order shall be binding on the Company unless and until it has been accepted in writing by the Company. 4. PRICES (1) Unless otherwise agreed by the Company in writing:- (a) the price payable for Goods shall be the list price of the Company current at the date of despatch. (b) in the case for an order for delivery by instalments the price payable for each instalment shall be the list price of the Company current at the date of despatch of such instalment. (c) the Companys prices are subject to adjustment to take account of any variation in the Company's costs including (but not limited to) variations in wages, the costs of materials, exchange change rate fluctuations, alterations of duties and other costs since the date of the Company's quotation or (if no quotation is issued) the Buyer's order. The Company accordingly reserves the right to adjust the invoice price by the amount of any increase or decrease in such costs after the price is quoted and the invoice so adjusted shall be payable as if the price set out therein were the original contract price. (2) All prices are exclusive of Value Added Tax and this will be charged by the Company and will be payable by the Buyer at the appropriate rate. 5. ADDITIONAL COSTS The Buyer shall indemnify the Company in respect of any loss, cost or expense incurred by the Company as a result, directly or indirectly, of the Buyer's instructions or lack of instructions or through any failure or delay whatsoever in taking or through any other act, neglect or default on the part of the Buyer, its servants, agents or employees. 6. PATENTS The Buyer shall indemnify the Company against all cost, claims, losses, expenses and damages incurred by the Company or for which it may be liable due to or arising directly or indirectly out of any infringement or alleged infringement of patents, trade marks, copyright, design right or other intellectual property right occasioned by the importation manufacture of sale of the Goods if made to the specification or special requirements of the Buyer. 7. TERMS OF PAYMENT (1) The Buyer shall pay for the Goods in cash in accordance with the payment terms set out overleaf or, if none are stated, at the end of the month following the month of delivery save that payment shall become due in any event forthwith upon the occurrence of any of the events referred to in Condition 16 hereof. (2) If the Goods are delivered in instalments the Company 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 notwithstanding non-delivery of other instalments of other default on the Company's part. (3) If upon the terms of the Contract the price shall be payable by instalments or if the Buyer has agreed to take specified quantities of 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. (4) The price of the Goods shall be due in full to the Company in accordance with the terms of the Contract and the Buyer shall not be entitled to exercise any set-off, lien or any other similar right or claim. (5) The time of payment shall be of the essence of the Contract. (6) Without prejudice to any other rights it may have the Company is entitled (both before and after any judgement) to charge interest at a rate equal to the higher of the interest rate payable on court judgement or 2% above the Base Rate from time to time of The Royal Bank of Scotland Ltd on overdue payments of the price of the Goods or the price of any instalments thereof. 8. DELIVERY (1) All times, dates or periods given for delivery of the Goods are given in good faith but without any responsibility on the Company's part. (2) Time of delivery shall not be of the essence of the Contract. (3) Any period for delivery shall be calculated from the time of the Company's acceptance of the Buyer's order or from the Company's receipt of all information necessary to enable the Company to manufacture or procure the manufacture of the Goods (whichever shall be the later). (4) Where the Goods are handed to a carrier for carriage to the Buyer or to United Kingdom port for export any such carrier shall be deemed to be an agent of the Company and not of the Buyer for the purposes of Sections 44, 45 and 46 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979. (5) The Buyer agrees that Section 32(3) of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 shall not apply to Goods sent by the Company. (6) No liability (whether in contract or for negligence or otherwise howsoever) for loss of or for damage to the Goods occurring prior to delivery or for any claim that any item delivered pursuant to the Contract is defective or is otherwise not in accordance with the Contrast (being a defect or loss, damage or non complaisance which would be obvious upon a reasonable inspection of the Goods) or for non-delivery will attach to the Company unless claims to that effect are notified in writing by the Buyer to the Company (and in the case of claims for loss, damage or non-delivery with a copy to the carrier if the Company's own vehicles have not been used to deliver the Goods):- · within 5 days of delivery for loss, damage, defect or non compliance with the Contract; or · within ten days of the date of the invoice for non-delivery. (7) In the event of a valid claim for defect, loss, damage or non-compliance with the Contract or non delivery the Company undertakes at its option either to reprocess or replace the items concerned at its expense but shall not be under any further or other liability in connection with such non-delivery, loss, damage or non compliance. (8) If the buyer shall fail to give notice in accordance with the Condition 8(6) above the items delivered shall be deemed to be in all respects in accordance with the Contract and without prejudice to earlier acceptance by the Buyer it shall be bound to accept and pay for the same accordingly and all claims in respect of non-delivery, loss, damage defect or non-compliance shall (save as set out in Condition 13 below) thereafter be wholly barred. (9) If for any reason the Buyer is unable to accept delivery of the Goods at the time when the Goods are due and ready for delivery the Company may at its sole discretion with out prejudice to its other rights and for such period as the Company may determine store the Goods at the Buyer's risk and take all reasonable steps to safeguard and insure them at the Buyer's cost provided that the Buyer shall be immediately informed thereof. (10) The Company shall have the right to make delivery by instalments of such quantities and at such intervals as it may decide, and any express provision as to instalments in the Contract shall be in addition to and not in derogation of this right. 9. RETURNS Goods supplied in accordance with the Contract cannot be returned without the Company's prior written authorisation. Duly authorised returns shall be sent to the Company's premises at the Buyer's expense. Once you have accepted delivery for the patio heater and it has been signed for by opening the packing you accept that the patio heater can not be return unless it is faulty. If a faulty patio is received a replacement or part replacement will be sent. You can not return a patio heater under any circumstance if it has been used in anyway unless agreed with World Ideas Ltd. We can not refund postage costs under any circumstances. If we accept your return your cost will be refunded minus our postage costs (normally £9.20 each way, per patio heater) 10. CARRIAGE (1) Unless otherwise agreed by the Company in writing the Goods will be delivered ex the Company's premises and the price of the Goods is exclusive of carriage, packaging and insurance to the Buyer's premises. (2) Where the Buyer requests delivery in a manner other than that selected by the Company in Condition 10(1) above, any difference in price shall be charged to the Buyer's account. 11. PASSING OF TITLE AND RISK (1) From the time of delivery the Goods shall be at the Buyer's risk who shall be solely responsible for their custody and maintenance but, unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing, the Goods shall remain the Company's property until all payments to be made by the Buyer under the Contract and any other contract between the Company and the Buyer and on any other account whatsoever have been made in full and unconditionally. Whilst the Company's ownership continues the buyer shall keep the Goods labelled as belonging to the Company and separate the identifiable from all other goods in its possession as bailee for the Company. (2) The Buyer may only re-sell the Goods to the Buyer's customers in the ordinary course of the Buyer's business as a fiduciary and trustee for the Company. In the event of any resale by the Buyer of the Goods the Company's beneficial entitlement shall attach to the proceeds of sale or other disposition thereof so that such proceeds or any claim therefore shall be assigned to the Company and until such assignment shall be held on trust in a separate identified account for the Company by the Buyer and such proceeds shall not be mingled with other moneys or paid into any overdrawn bank account and shall at all times be identified as the Company's money's. (3) Without prejudice to the equitable rules as to tracing, in the event of failure to pay the price in accordance with the Contract the Company shall have power to re-sell the Goods, such power being additional to (and not in substitution for) any other power of sale arising by operation of law or implication or otherwise and for such purpose the Company and its servants and agents may forthwith enter upon any premises or land occupied or owned by the Buyer to remove the Goods. (4) Pending payment of the full purchase price of the goods the Buyer shall at all times keep the Goods comprehensively insured against loss or damage by accident, fire, theft, and other risks usually covered by insurance in the type of business carried on by the Buyer in an amount at least equal to the balance of the price for the same from time to time remaining outstanding. The policy shall bear an endorsement recording the Company's interest. (5) The Company is hereby licensed to enter upon any premises in the ownership, possession or control of the Buyer at any time to recover the Goods. 12. CONDITIONS AND WARRANTIES (1) The Contract shall not constitute a sale by description or sample. (2) Any conditions or warranties (whether express or implied by statute or common law or arising from conduct or a previous course of dealing or trade custom or usage or otherwise howsoever) as to the quality of the Goods or their fitness for any particular purpose (even if that purpose is made known expressly or by implication to the Company) or as to the correspondence of the Goods with any description or sample are hereby expressly negatived. (3) No warrenty is given with any patio heater sale. However with agreement from World Ideas Ltd we will replace defective parts within 6 months of purchase providing the patio heater has been used inaccording the the manufacture instructions. 13. DEFECTIVE GOODS (1) In substitution for all rights which the Buyer would or might have but for these Conditions the Company undertakes in the case of Goods manufactured by the Company that if within one month of delivery of any item of the Goods a defect in materials or workmanship appears therein being a defect which would not be obvious on reasonable inspection thereof (whether such an inspection was carried out or not) it will at its own discretion either credit to the Buyer the full price paid by the Buyer to the Company for such item or repair it or supply a replacement thereof free of charge at the place of delivery specified by the Buyer for the original Goods provided that in any case the original Goods have been accepted and paid for. (2) In the case of Goods not manufactured by the Company, the Company will pass on to the Buyer to the extent that is able any benefits obtainable under any warranty given by the Company's supplier provided that the Goods have been accepted and paid for. (3) In order to exercise its rights under the Condition the Buyer shall inform the Company within seven days of the date when such defect appeared or ought reasonably to have been discoverable and shall at the Company's written request return the defective Goods carriage paid to the Company's premises. (4) Nothing herein shall impose any liability upon the Company 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 Company as to storage and handling of the Goods. (5) Where the Goods are for delivery by instalments any defect in any instalment shall not be a ground for cancellation of the remainder of the instalments and the Buyer shall be bound to accept delivery thereof. (6) Nothing herein shall have the effect of excluding or restricting the liability of the Company for death or personal injury resulting from its negligence in so far as the same is prohibited by United Kingdom statute. 14. BUYERS SPECIFICATION The Company shall not be liable for imperfect work caused by any inaccuracies in any drawing, bill of quantities or specification supplied by the Buyer. 15. CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS The Company shall not be liable for any costs, claims, damages or expenses arising out of any tortuous act or omission or any breach of contract of statutory duty calculated by reference to profits, income, production or accruals or loss of such profits, income, production or accruals or by reference to accrual of such costs, claims, damages or expenses on a time basis. 16. DEFAULT OR INSOLVENCY OF BUYER If the Buyer shall be in breach of any of its obligations under the Contract or if any distress or execution shall be levied on the Buyer's property or assets or if the Buyer shall make or offer to make any arrangement or composition with his creditors or commit any act of bankruptcy or if any bankruptcy petition be presented against him or (if the Buyer is a company) if any Resolution or Petition to wind up such company shall be passed or presented or if a receive, administrative receiver or administrator of the whole or any part of such company's undertaking property or assets shall be appointed the Company in its discretion and without prejudice to any other right or claim may by notice in writing determine wholly or in part any and every contract between the Company and the Buyer or may (without prejudice to the Company's right subsequently to determine the Contract for the same cause should it so decide) by notice in writing suspend delivery of any further deliveries (as the case may be) of Goods until any default by the Buyer be remedied. 17. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY The aggregate liability of the Company (whether in contract or for negligence or breach of statutory duty otherwise howsoever) to the Buyer for any loss or damage of whatsoever nature and howsoever caused shall be limited to and in no circumstance shall exceed the price of the Goods. 18. EXPORT TERMS (1) In these Conditions "Incoterms" means the international rules for the interpretation of trade terms of the International Chamber of Commerce as in force at the date when the Contract is made. Unless the context otherwise requires, a term or expression which is defined in or given a particular meaning by the provisions of Incoterms shall have the same meaning in the Contract, but if there is any conflict between the provisions of Incoterms and the Contract. Then the latter shall prevail. (2) Where the goods are supplied for export from the United Kingdom the provisions of this Condition 18 shall (subject to any special terms agreed in writing between the Company and the Buyer) apply notwithstanding any other provision of these Conditions. (3) The Buyer shall be responsible for complying with any legislation or regulations governing the importation of the Goods into the country of destination, and into any country through which the Goods are transported, and for the payment of any duties on or in respect of the importation or transportation of the Goods. (4) Unless otherwise agreed, payment of all amounts due from the Buyer to the Company shall be made at sight by irrevocable letter of credit opened by the Buyer in favour of the Company and confirmed by a first class (main) UK Bank acceptable to the Company. All bank charges in the export territory are to be borne by the Buyer. 19. REPRESENTATIONS No statement, description, information, warranty, condition or recommendations contained in any catalogue, price list, advertisement or communication or made verbally by any of the Company's agents or employees shall be construed to enlarge, vary or override in any way any of these Conditions. 20. FORCE MAJEURE The Company shall be entitled to delay or cancel delivery or to reduce the amount of Goods delivered if and to the extent that it is prevented from or hindered in or delayed in manufacturing, obtaining or delivering Goods by normal route or means of delivery through any circumstances beyond its control including (but not limited to) strikes, lock-outs, accidents, war, fire, reduction in or unavailability of power at manufacturing plant, breakdown of plant or machinery or shortage or unavailability of raw materials from normal sources of supply. 21. CANCELLATION Save as provided in conditions 16 and 20 hereof contracts may not be cancelled except by agreement in writing of both parties and upon the payment to the Company of such amount as may be necessary to indemnify the Company against all loss resulting from the said cancellation. If you do need to cancel for whatever reason a £5 refund charge will apply. 22. SUB-CONTRACTING The Company may assign the Contract with the Buyer or sub-contract the whole or any part thereof to any person, firm or company. 23. PROPER LAW The Contract shall in all respects be governed by and construed in accordance with English Law and shall be deemed to have been made in England and the Buyer and the Company agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts. |