In these conditions:
“CUSTOMER’S
EQUIPMENT” means the equipment or material belonging to you,
or for which you request us to provide services.
“SERVICES” means
the engineering and associated services relating to the
Customer’s Equipment as set out in the proposal specified in
our quotation or other agreed documents or discussions
between us.
“We”, “us” and
“our” mean the MBK Motor Rewinds Ltd company providing
services to you.
“You” and “your”
mean the person or company to which we are providing
Services.
2. Incorporation
of Conditions.
a) Any contract or arrangement to do work made between you
and us shall be subject to these
conditions, and any terms you put forward do not apply.
b) All other terms and conditions which might be implied by
conduct or a previous course of dealing or
trade custom are excluded from this Contract.
c) No amendment or change shall be made to these conditions
of business except by agreement in writing signed by one of
our Directors.
3
Quotations/Prices
a) Our quotation provides an indication to you of the terms
on which you may place an order, but no order from you as a
result of a quotation (or otherwise) shall be binding upon
us unless and until it is accepted or confirmed by us.
b) A quotation is made on the assumption that the work
requested is reasonably capable of being carried out. If on
inspection this is found in our opinion not to be the case,
we will advise you to this effect as soon as reasonably
practical, and may offer you a reconditioned or new
substitute on terms to be agreed.
If you give a general instruction for repairs without
specifying the particular service or replacement parts, we
will be entitled to carry out such repairs, modifications or
service as in our opinion are necessary to put the
Customer’s Equipment in good working order, and to make an
appropriate charge for the work and parts provided.
c) Provided your order is placed within thirty days of the
date of the quotation, the price contained in the quotation
shall be fixed unless the quotation states otherwise. If
your order is not placed in that period, then if any change
shall occur after that in the costs of any materials,
labour, transport or other items, including overheads, which
we have to pay or incur for the performance of the Contract,
then you will pay all resultant increased price.
d) If delivery and performance are postponed at your request
or by circumstances within your control you will pay all
resulting costs and expenses we incur.
f) We will charge for all work carried out at your request,
whether exploratory or otherwise and, in particular, we
reserve the right to instruct our employees or agents to
work overtime to comply with your delivery requirements in
which case we may charge you the cost of such overtime.
4. Work on Site.
If
the Services are to be carried out on your premises or at
your request at some other site we will need free and safe
access to the Customer’s Equipment, together with proper and
safe storage and protection of all goods, tools, plant and
equipment and materials we have on site. We may also require
additional facilities to carry out the Services such as
electricity. You will observe and comply with the latest
Health and Safety at Work Legislation and ensure that the
site is safe and without risk to the health and safety of
all persons working there; and you will hold us harmless
against all legal and regulatory proceeding, costs and
charges in respect of your failure to do so.
5. Payment.
Unless otherwise agreed with you by us, we will issue an
invoice for the full amount due on completion of the
Services. Invoices will be due for payment 30 days from the
day on which we despatch the invoice to you. All payments
will be in Pounds Sterling.
6. Designs
Drawings and Specification.
You
shall be responsible for the accuracy of any designs,
specifications and other data, which you or your employees
or agents supply to us and which we use in connection with
the Services, even if we examine, inspect or comment upon
them. You will hold us harmless against any liability to a
third party which we may incur as a result of carrying out
the Services in accordance with your instructions or your
designs, drawings, specification or other data.
7. Warranty.
a) We will take reasonable care of the Customer’s Equipment
whilst it is in our custody and make good any loss or damage
caused by our failure to exercise reasonable care, our
liability being limited to the replacement value of the
Equipment.
b) We also undertake to use reasonable skill and care in
carrying out the work and to use materials which are of
suitable quality and free from defects.
c) Unless otherwise agreed, we will rectify defective work
and/or defective materials notified to us in writing within
six months of completion of the work and liability for
defective work and/or defective materials is limited to the
invoice value thereof. We will have no responsibility for
other loss or damage, including (without limitation) loss of
profit or production, except as required by law.
d) Unless we have agreed to do so, you will accept full
responsibility for re-installing, examining and testing the
Equipment on which we have worked as soon as it is completed
and we shall not be responsible for other loss or damage,
cost or loss incurred by you due to your failure to properly
re-install or delay in testing the equipment or in notifying
us of any defect in the work.
8.
Transportation.
i) If
we have agreed to transport the Equipment, in the event of
loss or damage to Equipment in transit from any cause
whatsoever our liability shall be limited at our option to
replacing or repairing the Equipment or passing on the
benefit of insurance. In no circumstances shall we be liable
for other loss including (without limitation) loss of
production or loss of profit or contracts.
ii) We shall not be liable for any such transit damage
unless we and the carriers are notified of such damage or
loss within seven days of delivery. It is your
responsibility to examine the goods immediately on receipt.
iii) Unless otherwise agreed, the loading or off-loading of
the goods on collection or return to you shall be arranged
by you and performed at your sole expense and risk.
9. Termination
of this Contract.
We
may bring this Contract to an end if you fail to comply with
your obligations under this Contract, within seven days of
having been notified by us of the relevant failure. We may
also bring this Contract to an end immediately if you are
the subject of a petition for a bankruptcy order, or you
become insolvent or enter into any composition, scheme or
arrangement with your creditors. If you are a corporation or
legal person, we may bring this Contract to an end
immediately if a receiver (including an administrative
receiver) is appointed for you. If you are in partnership,
we may bring this Contract to an end immediately if the
partnership is dissolved. We may also terminate this
Contract if any proceedings relating to your insolvency are
commenced in any country.
If this agreement ends for any reason, we will be entitled
to remove all of our equipment from your premises or from
site. You will remain liable to us for any sums which you
have not paid, for all work done up to the date of
termination and for any other breaches of this Contract.
Title in the goods shall not pass to the customer until they
have been paid for in full.
10 Limitation
of Liability.
We accept that we are liable for any death or personal
injury resulting from our negligence or the negligence of
our employees or agents acting in the course of their
employment. In relation to defects in goods sold to you by
us, we may also be liable under the Consumer Protection Act
1987 or equivalent legislation, but only to the extent that
such liability cannot lawfully be excluded.
Apart from
our agreement to rectify ant defects or errors in the
Services as set out in paragraph 7 above and to replace or
repair the Customer’s Equipment where there is loss or
damage to goods in transit as set out in paragraph 8 above:
a) our maximum liability to you for direct loss or
damage, either under this Contract or arising from any act
or omission, including negligence, will not exceed the total
amount paid by you under this Contract, or such higher
sum as a court may specify as reasonable up to a limit of
£100,000; and
b) we will not be liable to you under any circumstances for
any indirect or consequential losses (including
for example, loss of Contracts or loss of profits or
loss of production).
The
limitations and exclusions in this paragraph apply to any
claim, whether in contract, tort (including negligence),
breach of any statutory duty or implied term of any other
claim, except any liability for death, personal injury or
defects in goods supplied to you by us as set out above.
The
limitations and exclusions in these conditions reflect the
value of this Contract to us and are considered to be
reasonable. If you require us to accept greater liability we
may be prepared to do so subject to agreement of an
additional charge to reflect the increased risk and cost of
insurance to us.
11 Force
Majeure
We will not be liable to you for any failure to perform our
obligations under this Agreement where that failure results
from any cause outside our reasonable control, including but
not limited to natural occurrences, disruption of power
supplies, the actions of third parties or industrial action.
12 Disputes.
Any dispute which we cannot settle amicably relating to the
nature or quality of the Services will be referred to an
expert to be agreed or (if we and you cannot agree the
choice of expert within 14days of an expert being proposed
by you or us) appointed at the request of you or us by the
President for the time being of the Institute of Electrical
Engineers.
The written
report of the expert will as between you and us be
conclusive evidence of all matters of fact and all matters
of opinion set out in the report and the charges of the
expert shall be borne and paid as the expert may direct.
Any other
dispute (except action to secure payment which we may at our
option pursue in the courts local to you) will be determined
by reference to the Courts of England and you irrevocably
submit to the jurisdiction of such courts.
13. V.A.T.
Unless indicated otherwise, all sums payable under this
Contract are stated exclusive of Value Added Tax (which will
be charged at the rate prevailing at the relevant tax point)
and any other tax or duty chargeable under any relevant
legislation.
14.
Assignment / Third Parties.
You will not assign your rights under this agreement without
our express written approval. We may sub-contract the
provision of certain of the Services at our discretion. No
third Party shall acquire any rights under this Contract
except as specifically stated in these conditions.
15. Notices.
Any notice to be given by us or you must be in writing and
may be delivered by facsimile. Notices to us should be sent
to us at the address stated on our quotation,
acknowledgement or invoice. Any notice given to you will be
sent to you at the address supplied at the time of order. We
and you are free to provide an alternative address for
notices at any time. Facsimile notices will be assumed to
have been delivered on the next working day after
transmission, and notices sent by first class post will be
assumed to have been delivered two working days after they
are sent.
16. Waiver.
Any
express or implied waiver by us of any failure by you to
perform your obligations under this Agreement will not
prevent the subsequent enforcement of those obligations.
Similarly, any waiver we give will not be taken to be a
waiver of any subsequent failure by you to perform that or
any other obligation.
17. Whole
Agreement.
This Contract constitutes the entire agreement between us
relating to the Services and overrides any prior
correspondence or statements relating to the Services
(including any statement or representations in any
advertisements or literature produced by us relating to the
Services).
18. Validity.
If any provision of this Agreement is ruled to be invalid
for any reason, that invalidity will not affect the rest of
this Agreement which will remain valid and enforceable in
all respects.
19. Law.
This Agreement is governed by English Law.