Terms &
Conditions
All
contracts made between Mar Imports Pty. Ltd. or any of its
subsidiaries (“ the seller “) and the applicant
for a credit Account
and / or the customer specified on the Seller’s Order
Form (“ the Buyer “) for the sale of pavers,
tiles or other products (“the goods “) ( all
such contracts being hereinafter called the (“ Contracts
of sale”) are subject to the following terms and conditions:
1. PURCHASE PRICE All Contracts of sale and purchase
of goods shall be at the seller’s ruling price at
the date of delivery of the goods. Any prior quotation shall
be subject to the rise or fall accordingly.
2. PAYMENT The Buyer hereby warrants and agrees
to make payment in full without set off to the Seller for
the goods delivered from time to time to the Buyer as evidence
by the Seller’s Invoice and/or Order Form on or before
the expiration of the period ending on the last working
day of the month next succeeding the month in which delivery
of the
goods took place unless otherwise specified on the Seller’s
Order Form where the Buyer has been granted a Credit Account
or in accordance with the payment terms set out in the Seller’s
Order Form , whichever may be the case (“the Due Date”).
3. INTEREST If the
payments referred to in condition 3 are not made in accordance
therewithin, the Seller may demand and the Buyer shall pay
interest on all amounts outstanding at the rate of 20% per
annum from the date due until the day that payment is actually
received by the Seller.
4. TRANSFER OF PROPERTY AND RISK
The Buyer acknowledges that right title and interest to
any and all goods supplied by the seller to the Buyer shall
not pass from the Seller to the Buyer until all monies outstanding
from the Buyer to the seller have been received by the Seller
notwithstanding that particular goods supplied by the Seller
to the
Buyer have been paid for by the Buyer. Notwithstanding the
foregoing the goods shall be at risk of the Buyer form and
including the time and date upon which the goods are delivered:
(a) at or in the near vicinity of an address specified by
the Buyers,
(b) into the possession of the Buyer or his carrier, at
the premises of the Seller,
(c) into possession of a carrier engaged by the Seller to
deliver the goods to the Buyer, at the premises of the Seller;
or
(d) to the wharf, rail yard or other transport or other
transport loading station specified by the Buyer.
5. ACCEPTANCE OF GOODS
The Buyer shall inspect all goods immediately after delivery
thereof and shall within three (3) days of delivery and
in any case prior to affixing the goods to the buyer’s
site , laying or otherwise using any of the goods give notice
to the Seller of any matter or thing by reason whereof the
Buyer may allege that the goods or part of the goods are
not in accordance with the Contract of Sale. Where such
a notice is given by the Buyer to the Seller and the Seller
agrees that the goods or part of the goods are not in accordance
with Contract of Sale (“the Defective Goods “)
than , subject to Condition
7, the Seller may replace the defective goods with goods
corresponding with the description under which the defective
goods were sold if the Seller has in stock goods of that
description and , in any case, the Buyer shall not be entitled
to cancel the order of which the defective goods formed
part provided that where the defective goods amount to
5% or less of the quantity of goods in any one delivery
or where the defective goods are returned to the Seller
in order , than the order and condition on delivery the
Seller shall not be required to replace the defective goods
nor to make any allowance thereof. if the
Buyer shall fail to give such a notice the goods shall be
deemed to be in all respects in accordance with the Contract
of Sale and the Buyer shall be bound to accept any pay for
the same accordingly .
6. GOODS AND WARRANTIES
a) Goods sold under the description “first quality
“ are warranted to comply with the quality standards
of the Seller prescribed from time to time. Goods sold under
any description other than “first quality ”
in particular, but without limiting the generality of the
foregoing goods described as “seconds” or “commons”
may be imperfect or damaged and no warranty is given by
the Seller as to their quality, condition, colour or fitness
for any particular purpose.
a) Due to variations in colour and textures of materials
used in manufacture of the goods no warranty is given by
the Seller that the goods shall correspond in colour or
texture with any sample, display or goods previously sold
or displayed. The Buyer shall not make any claim and the
Seller shall not, be liable for any loss including consequential
loss; expense or damages which may be sustained or incurred
whether directly or indirectly by the Buyer by reason of
any variation in
colour or texture of the goods sold.
b) The Buyer shall not make any claim and the Seller shall
not be liable for any loss including consequential loss,
expense or damages which may be sustained or incurred by
the Buyer whether directly or indirectly by reason of delivery
to the Buyer of defective goods or after any goods have
been affixed to the Buyer’s site, laid or otherwise
used.
c) Subject to the provisions of any applicable legislation
all conditions and warranties expressed or implied by law
or otherwise are hereby negatived .
7. DELIVERY
a) The Buyer shall not make any claim and the Seller shall
not be liable for any loss including consequential loss,
expense or damages which may be sustained or incurred by
the Buyer whether directly or indirectly attributable to
the Seller’s failure to deliver goods by reason of
lock outs, strikes, accidents, fire or any other cause whatsoever,
outside the Seller’s control.
b) The Buyer shall provide reasonable and proper access
to the site specified for delivery on the Seller’s
Order Form and shall further provide Council approved crossing
facilities.
c) Whereby reason of difficulty of access to the site or
any other cause whatsoever the time necessarily spent at
the site for the purpose of effecting delivery exceeds one
(1) hour the purchase price of the goods shall be deemed
to be increased by the costs and expenses thereby reasonable
incurred or charged by the Seller.
d) When due to the absence of proper identification as place
of delivery the site specified for delivery on the Seller’s
Order form cannot be located or there is obstruction to
the site, the goods shall be returned to the Seller and
the purchase price shall be deemed to be increased by the
costs and expenses thereby incurred or charged by the Seller.
e) Where damage is caused to footpaths or any other property
by the Seller or its carrier, the Buyer shall indemnify
the Seller for any loss including consequential loss. expense
or damages which may be sustained or incurred by the Seller
whether direct or indirectly a s a consequence.
8. ESTIMATIONS
The Buyer acknowledges where the Seller has estimated from
time to time quantities of goods for purchase by the Buyer,
that the Seller has exercised all due care but shall not
be responsible should an estimate prove to be incorrect.
The Buyer shall not make any claim and the Seller shall
not be liable for any loss including consequential loss,
expense or damages which may be sustained or incurred by
the Buyer whether directly or indirectly attributable to
an estimate proving to be incorrect.
9. INDEMNITY
Subject to the provision of any applicable legislation which
the Seller is not permitted by law to contract out of ,
the Seller shall not be liable or responsible for any loss,
costs, damages or expenses whatsoever suffered or incurred
directly by or arising from negligence or default of the
Seller or any one or more of its officers, employees,servants
or agents in the due performance of its obligations pursuant
to any Contract of Sale, or any other circumstances and
the Buyer shall keep the Seller indemnified against all
such loss, costs, damages or expenses incurred by or made,
brought instituted or awarded against the Seller in relation
thereto.
10. DEFAULT The
Buyer acknowledges that where the Seller has granted to
the Buyer a Credit Account and the Conditions of Sale herein
are not observed or performed at any time and from time
to time, the Seller may:
a) demand payment for the goods on a cash on delivery basis;
and / or
b) terminate any credit accommodation granted to the Buyer.
11. TERMINATION
Notwithstanding Condition 11, the Seller may terminate any
credit accommodation granted, to the Buyer by notice in
writing to the Buyer at any time in its absolute unfettered
discretion and upon receipt of the said notice all monies
owning shall forthwith become due and payable and the Seller
may demand and the Buyer shall pay
interest on all amounts outstanding at the rate of 20% per
annum from the date of receipt by the Buyer of the said
notice until the date that payment is actually received
by the Seller.
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12. EVIDENCE The
quantity and description, and place and date of delivery of
the goods as indicated on the Seller’s invoice or delivery
dockets or copies thereof shall be conclusive evidence of
the quantity, description and place and date of the delivery
of the goods.
13.
RETURN OF GOODS Any goods which are accepted for
return by the Seller from the Buyer for credit, of the Buyer’s
account shall be subject to cartage costs and handling charges
which the Buyer agrees the Seller may deduct from any credit
of the Buyer’s account except where the Seller admits
that it has supplied the wrong goods or services due
to its own negligence.
14.
CANCELLATION FEE In the event of the cancellation
of any order or part thereof by the Buyer, the Seller reserves
the right to claim payment from the Buyer and the Buyer shall
pay to the Seller a cancellation fee equivalent to 10% of
the price of the order or that part of the order so cancelled.
15.
REFUNDS Any monies refunded by the Seller to the
Buyer, whether in consequence of the cancellation of an order
or otherwise, shall be repaid without interest and after deduction
of any amount to which the Seller may be entitled or charge,
and it is expressly agreed that the Buyer shall not make or
seek to maintain any claim against the Seller for payment
of interest in monies so refunded.
16.
SEVERABILITY If any Condition of Sale herein shall
be adjudged to be an unreasonable constraint or invalid the
same shall be read down as far as possible to what may be
considered reasonable in all the circumstances and if such
provision cannot be read down then that provision shall be
deemed to be void and severable from the rest of the Conditions
of Sale and shall in no way effect any other terms or conditions,
hereof or the application of that, or any other provision
hereof in other circumstances.
17.
INCORPORATION OF CONDITIONS The Conditions of Sale
herein shall be deemed to be incorporated into each and every
Contract of Sale between the Buyer and the Seller.
18.
ENTIRE AGREEMENT Each and every Contract of Sale
between the Buyer and the Seller shall be constituted by the
Buyer’s order and the Seller’s invoice or delivery
slip in relation thereto and the Conditions of Sale Herein
which contract shall form the entire agreement between the
Buyer and the Seller .
19. TERMS In all sales of goods between the
Seller and the Buyer (save for the conditions or warranties
implied by the provision of division 2 of Part V of the Trade
Practices Act 1974 or any statutory modifications of re- enactment
thereof where the Act or any such modification of re - enactment
is applicable to any such sale) no other terms, conditions,
agreements, warranties, representations or understanding whatsoever
whether expressed or implied in any way extending defining
or otherwise relating to or binding on the Seller with respect
to such a sale other than these terms and any other terms
by which the Seller agrees to be bound in writing are made
or given and any conditions or warranties which
might otherwise be implied under the law of any State of Australia
are hereby expressly negatived.
20.
TIME Time shall be of the essence.
21.
VARIATION No variation or amendment of the Condition
of Sale herein shall be effected except by an instrument in
writing signed by or on behalf of the Seller. |