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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SALE
INTRODUCTION:
1. IN these conditions "the Company"
shall mean Crane Care Limited and any Associate
or Subsidiary Company by which the goods are
sold or the services performed, "the
Buyer" shall mean the person, firm or
Company to whom the Company agrees to sell
or supply the goods or to perform services
as agreed, "the Goods" shall mean
the article or things or any of them described
in the contract between the Company and the
Buyer for the sale of supply of goods or for
the provision of services rendered in accordance
with these conditions. "Services"
shall mean any work or labour done or service
rendered by the Company for or on behalf of
the Buyer.
2. ALL contracts of sale of Goods and contracts
for the supply of services incorporate these
Conditions so far as such Conditions are not
varied by any special terms or Conditions
agreed in writing between the parties, and
any term and Condition of the Buyer which
are inconsistent with these Conditions shall
have no effect. Any variation of the contract
will become binding only if confirmed in writing
by the Company.
3. THE rights of the Company or the buyer
shall not be prejudiced or restricted by any
indulgence or forbearance extended by either
party to the other and no waiver by either
party in respect of any breach shall operate
as a waiver in respect of any subsequent breach.
RISK:
4. THE risk in the goods shall pass to the
Buyer on delivery.
RESERVATION OF TITLE:
5. UNTIL full payment in cash or cleared funds
has been received by the Company for all goods
whatsoever supplied (and all services rendered)
at any time by the Company to the Buyer:-
(a) Property in the goods shall remain in
the Company.
(b) Should the goods (or any of them) be converted
into a new product, whether or not such conversion
involves the admixture of any other goods
or thing whatsoever and in whatever proportions,
the conversion shall be deemed to have been
effected on behalf of the Company and the
Company shall have the full legal and beneficial
ownership of the new products, but without
accepting any liability whatsoever in respect
of such converted goods in relation to any
third party, and the Buyer hereby indemnifies
the Company in relation thereto.
(c) Subject to (d) and (e) below, the buyer
shall be at liberty to sell the goods and
the new products referred to in (b) above,
in the ordinary course of business on the
basis that the proceeds of sate shall belong
to the Company to whom the Buyer shall account:
(d) the Company may at any time revoke the
Buyer's power of sale by notice to the Buyer,
if the Buyer is in default in the payment
of any sum whatsoever due to the Company whether
in respect of the goods or any other goods
supplied) or services rendered at any time
by the Company to the Buyer or for any other
reason whatsoever or if the Company has bona
fide doubts as to the solvency of the buyer:
(e) the Buyer's power of sale shall automatically
cease if a Receiver is appointed over any
of the assets, or the undertaking of the Buyer
or a winding up order is made against the
buyer, or the Buyer goes into voluntary liquidation
(otherwise than for the purpose of reconstruction
or amalgamation) or cause a meeting of or
makes any arrangement or composition with
creditors or commits any act of bankruptcy
or allows execution to be levied against its
or his goods:
(f) upon determination of the Buyer's power
of sate under (d) or (e) above, the Buyer
shall place the goods and the new products
at the disposal of the Company who shall be
entitled using such force as is reasonably
necessary, to .enter upon any premises of
the buyer for the purpose of removing such
goods and new products and to remove such
goods and new products from the premises (including
severance from the realty where necessary).
(g) 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 monies owing by the Buyer to
the Seller shall (without prejudice to any
other right or remedy of the Seller) forthwith
become due and payable.
DELIVERY:
6. DATES or periods for delivery stated in
the contract are only approximate and not
essential terms unless and subject to Para
7 hereof in the circumstances of a particular
case the parties specifically agree in writing
guaranteed delivery dates.
7. SHOULD the manufacture or delivery of any
of the goods or the provisions of services
at any of the Company's or its parent Company's
works, or the delivery of thereof to the Buyer
elsewhere, whether by the Company its parent
Company or an independent contractor, be prevented
or hindered directly or indirectly by fire,
the elements, war, civil commotion, strikes
or lock outs, industrial dispute, shortage
of raw materials or fuel, shortage of labour,
failure or partial failure of plant or machinery,
late receipt of the Buyers specifications
or other necessary information. Acts, Orders
or regulations of Government or Local Authority,
delay on the part of any independent sub contractor
or supplier, or any other cause whatsoever
beyond the reasonable control of the Company
or for delivery of the goods or the provision
of the services shall be extended for a reasonable
period having regard to the effect of the
delaying cause on the manufacture or delivery
of the goods or the services to be rendered.
8. WHERE the contract provides for delivery
of the goods at such place as the Buyer shall
nominate being elsewhere than the Company's
works, the Company will entertain a claim
by the Buyer in respect only of loss or damage
in transit only if the Buyer
(a) Gives written notice to the Company within
21 days after the date of the Company's Advice
Note or other notification of the despatch
of the goods in case of non delivery, or within
7 days after delivery of the goods in any
other case: and
(b) where the goods are transported by an
independent carrier) complies with the conditions
of carriage of the Road Haulage Association.
SEPARATE CONTRACTS:
9. EACH part delivery of instalment of the
goods or services shall be deemed to be sold
or provided under a separate contract.
CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS:
10. THE company shall not be liable for loss
of profit, damage to plant, or for any expenditure
incurred on goods supplied or on goods upon
which services have been rendered or for any
consequential or special loss or damage sustained
by the Buyer by reason of any breach of the
contract by the Company.
11. THE buyer will indemnify the Company against
such loss or damage arising from any unclear
or indistinct or ambiguous instructions given
by the Buyer.
SERVICES:
12. WHERE in the case of services to be rendered
by the Company upon goods belonging to the
Buyer, the Buyer undertakes and warrants:-
(a) that the Buyer has a good title to the
goods and that the Buyer will indemnify the
Company against all claims whatsoever by any
other person claiming an interest in such
goods and
(b) that the goods are free from any defect
which would or could cause the services to
be performed by the Company to be dangerous
or harmful.
13. WHERE the contract is for the provision
of a test and a report upon goods, then such
report will be only provided by the Company
for the private and confidential and personal
use and Information of the buyer and will
not be capable of transfer.
QUALITY:
14. THE Company shall not be liable for>
(a) Any defects in the quality or the state
of the goods (except for discrepancy in weight)
or services rendered which would be apparent
on a reasonable examination or for the goods
being otherwise not in accordance with the
Contract unless the buyer shall have given
to the company within 14 days after receipt
of the goods a written notice specifying the
matters complained of and the Company admitting
such complaints after the Buyer has afforded
to the Company a reasonable opportunity of
inspecting the goods before they have been
used, worked or sold:
(b) any defects in the quality or the state
of the goods, which would not be apparent
on a reasonable examination unless such defects
shall have been discovered within 30 days
after receipt of the goods and the Buyers
shall have given to the Company forthwith
upon such discovery a written notice specifying
the matters complained of and the Company
admitting such complaints after the Buyer
has afforded to the Company a reasonable opportunity
of inspecting the goods in their alleged defective
state: or
(c) Any discrepancies in weight unless the
Buyer shall have given to the Company a written
notice thereof within 14 days after the receipt
of the goods and the Company admitting such
discrepancies after the Buyer has afforded
to the Company a reasonable opportunity of
witnessing a re-weigh thereof before such
goods have been used, worked or sold.
15. PROVIDED that the Buyer has complied with
the requirements as to notice in condition
8 or 14 (whichever may be applicable) if the
goods or any part thereof are defective in
quality or state or (save for discrepancy
in weight) otherwise not in accordance with
the contract then if the Company and the Buyer
do not agree that the Buyer should accept
the goods at an agreed value, or that the
goods should be made good at the Company's
expense, the Company undertakes to accept
a return of the relevant goods, and at the
Company's option either to :-
(a) Repay or allow the Buyer the invoice price
thereof and any reasonable transport costs
between the place of delivery and such place
of return as shall be nominated by the Company
borne by the buyer: or This undertaking is
given and shall be accepted by the Buyer in
full and final settlement and discharge of
all damages and losses howsoever, whatsoever
and whensoever sustained by the Buyer and
In lieu of any other legal remedy whatsoever.
16. ANY condition, warranty or statement as
to the quality of the goods or their fitness
for any purpose, whether expressed or implied
by statute, custom of the trade or otherwise,
is hereby excluded unless expressed in writing
by the Company signed by their authorised
executive.
TERMINATION:
17. THE Company shall be entitled, without
prejudice to it's other rights and remedies,
either to terminate wholly or in part any
or every contract between itself and the Buyer,
or to suspend any further deliveries under
any or every such contract in any of the following
events-la) If any unpaid debt is payable by
the Buyer to the Company.
(b) If the Buyer has failed to provide any
letter of credit, Bill of Exchange or any
other security required by the contract provided
that in such an event, the aforesaid rights
of termination or suspension shall apply only
in regard to the particular contract in respect
of which the Buyer shall have so failed:
(c) If the Buyer has failed to take delivery
of any goods under any contract between them
and the Company otherwise than in accordance
with the Buyer's contractual rights:
(d) If the Buyer becomes insolvent or being
a body corporate has passed a resolution for
voluntary winding up (except where solely
for the purpose of reconstruction or amalgamation)
or has suffered an Order of Court for their
winding up to be made, or have had a Receiver
appointed or have suspended payment of his
or their debts in whole or in part or have
proposed or have entered into any composition
or arrangement with his or their creditors
or have a Receiving Order in bankruptcy made
against him or them or allow distress to be
levied against its, his or their goods: and
(e) If the buyer is in breach of these conditions.
The company shall be entitled to exercise
its aforesaid rights of termination or suspension
at any time during which the event or default
giving rise thereto has not ceased or been
remedied and in the event of any such suspension
the Company shall be entitled as a condition
of resuming delivery and any Contract between
it and the Buyer to require pre-payment of
or such security as it may require for the
payment of the price of any further delivery
and to require the price for such goods to
be upward revised if they consider necessary.
PAYMENT:
1 B. UNLESS the contract provides expressly
otherwise, the price payable by the Buyer
for each delivery shall be the Company's ruling
price at date of despatch. Unless otherwise
expressly stated in the contract, the price
of such delivery shall be paid in full and
received by the Company by the last day of
the month following the month in which the
goods or services were invoiced. The Company
shall be entitled to charge interest at the
rate of 1 % above current Bank of England
minimum lending rate (payable monthly) on
any sums not so paid.
INSPECTION * TEST:
19. CUSTOMERS properly in our possession for
whatever reason including inspection repair
and test will be held at customers risk. We
shall be under no liability for any loss or
damage however arising, resulting from the
use, processing or conversion of the goods
whether they be tested or not and the buyer
will indemnify us in respect of any claim
by a third party for loss or damage resulting
aforesaid.
20. NO servant or agent of Crane Care Ltd.
or its subsidiaries is authorised to make
any representation or agreement or give any
warranty inconsistent with anything set out
in the foregoing paragraphs and no such agreement
representation or warranty, whether such agreement,
representation or warranty is in writing or
otherwise, shall be binding upon Crane Care
Ltd. or its subsidiaries.
LAW OF THE CONTRACT JURISDICTION AND ARBITRATION:
21 THESE Conditions and the Contract shall
be subject to and construed in accordance
with English Law and the Company and the Buyer
hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction
of the English Courts and all such disputes
which may arise under, out of or in connection
with or in relation to the Contract (other
than relating to the payment of any money
due from the Buyer to the Company) and which
the Company and the Buyer cannot settle amicably
shall be submitted to the arbitration of the
London Court of Arbitration under and in accordance
with its rules from time to time in force.
The Heading to each above-numbered Condition
is intended only to be of some practical assistance
to the Buyer as to the subject matter of the
Condition to which it relates and is not to
be construed as part of the Contract.
22 ORDERS and Specifications Rider available
on request.
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