Tetrosyl Express
Terms and Conditions of Sale

1. Interpretation
1.1 In these Conditions “Buyer” means the person who accepts a quotation of the Seller for the sale of the Goods or whose order for the Goods is accepted by the Seller. “Goods” means the goods (including any installment of the goods or any parts of them) which the Seller is to supply in accordance with these Conditions and shall include services where the context so permits. “Seller” means Tetrosyl Express Limited, a company registered in England under number 08506563 whose registered office is at Bevis Green Works, Walmersley, Bury, BL9 6RE “Conditions” means the standard terms and conditions of sale set out in this document and (unless the context otherwise requires) includes any special terms and conditions agreed in Writing between the Buyer and the Seller. “Contract” means the contract for the purchase and sale of the Goods. “Writing” includes email, telex, cable, facsimile transmission and comparable means of communication.

1.2 Any reference in these Conditions to any provision of a statute shall be construed as a reference to that provision as amended, re-enacted or extended at the relevant time.

1.3 The headings in these Conditions are for convenience only and shall not affect their interpretation.

2. Basis of Sale
2.1 The Seller shall sell and the Buyer shall purchase the Goods in accordance with any written order of the Buyer which is accepted by the Seller, subject to these Conditions, which shall govern the Contract to the exclusion of any other terms and conditions subject to which any such order is made or purported to be made, by the Buyer.

2.2 No variation to these Conditions shall be binding unless agreed in Writing between the authorised representative of the Buyer and a Director of the Seller.

2.3 The Sellers employees or agents are not authorised to make any representations concerning the Goods unless confirmed by the Seller in Writing. In entering into the Contract, the Buyer acknowledges that it does not rely on and waives any claim for breach of any such representations which are not so confirmed.

2.4 Any advice or recommendation given by the Seller or its employees or agents to the Buyer or its employees or agents as to the storage, application or use of the Goods which is not confirmed in Writing by the Seller is followed or acted upon entirely at the Buyer’s own risk and accordingly the Seller shall not be liable for any such advice or recommendation which is not so confirmed.

2.5 Any typographical, clerical or other errors or omission in any sales literature, quotation, price list, acceptance of offer, invoice or other document or information issued by the Seller shall be subject to correction without any liability on the part of the Seller.

2.6 The drawings of products and models supplied by the Seller and all copies thereof and the copyright therein shall remain the property of the Seller. The Buyer shall be responsible for the custody and safety of and shall not part with any such drawings or models to any third party without the Sellers consent. The Buyer shall immediately, at the request of the Seller, return such drawings and models to the Seller.

2.7 Any paint stands, pallets or other equipment supplied by the Seller shall remain the property of the Seller and the Buyer shall be responsible for the custody and safety of such equipment and shall immediately at the request of the Seller return such equipment to the Seller.

3. Orders and Specifications
3.1 Quotations do not constitute an offer. Quotes are valid for 30 days and are exclusive of all duties, levies and value added and other taxes.

3.2 The Buyer shall be responsible to the Seller for ensuring the accuracy of the terms of any order (including any applicable specification) submitted by the Buyer, and for giving the Seller any necessary information relating to the Goods within a sufficient time to enable the Seller to perform the Contract in accordance with its terms.

3.3 The quantity, quality and description of and any specification for the Goods shall be those set out in the Seller’s quotations (if accepted by the Buyer) or in the Buyer’s order (if accepted by the Seller). Illustrations and specifications inthe Seller’s catalogues are not warranted by the Seller, do not constitute a description and shall not be deemed to form part of any subsequent contract between the Seller and the Buyer.

3.4 The Seller reserves the right to make any changes in the specification of the Goods which are required to conform with any applicable safety or other statutory requirements or, where the Goods are to be supplied to the Seller’s specification, which do not materially affect their quality or performance.

3.5 No order which has been accepted by the Seller may be cancelled by the Buyer except with the agreement in Writing of the Seller and on terms that the Buyer shall indemnify the Seller in full against all loss(including loss of profit), costs (including the cost of all labour and materials used), damages, charges and expenses incurred by the Seller as a result of cancellation.

3.6 The Buyer will indemnify the Seller against all costs, expenses, loss or damage incurred by the Seller as a result of infringement or alleged infringement of letters, patents, trademarks or trade names, or registered designs, or any other protected rights in relation to products, manufactured or designed by the Seller to specifications by the Buyer.

4. Price of the Goods
4.1 The price of the Goods shall be the price listed in the Seller’s published price list current at the date of acceptance of the order. Goods are sold ex-warehouse.

4.2 The Seller reserves the right, by giving notice to the Buyer at any time before delivery, to increase the prices of the Goods to reflect any increase in the cost to the Seller which is due to any factor beyond the control of the Seller (such as, without limitation, any foreign exchange fluctuation, currency regulation, alteration of duties, significant increase in the costs of labour, materials or other costs of manufacture). Any change in delivery dates, quantities or specifications for the Goods which is requested by the Buyer, or any delay caused by any instructions of the Buyer or failure of the Buyer to give the Seller adequate information or instructions.

4.3 The price is exclusive of any applicable Value Added Tax which the Buyer shall be additionally liable to pay to the Seller.

5. Terms of Payment
5.1 Subject to any special terms agreed in Writing between the Buyer and the Seller, the Seller shall be entitled to invoice the Buyer for the price of the Goods on or at any time after delivery of the Goods, unless the Goods are to be collected by the Buyer or the Buyer wrongfully fails to take delivery of the Goods, in which event the Seller shall be entitled to invoice the Buyer for the price at any time after the Seller has notified the Buyer that Goods are ready for collection or (as the case may be) the Seller has tendered delivery of the Goods.

5.2 The Buyer shall pay the price of the Goods within 30 days of the month end of the date of the Seller’s invoice, notwithstanding that delivery may not have taken place and the property in the Goods has not passed to the Buyer. The time of payment of the price shall be of the essence of the contract. Receipts for payment will be issued only upon request.

5.3 If the Buyer fails to make any payment on the due date then, without prejudice to any other right or remedy available to the Seller, the Seller shall be entitled to:

5.3.1 Cancel the Contract or suspend any further deliveries to the Buyer

5.3.2 appropriate any payment made by the Buyer to such of the Goods (or the Goods supplied under any other contract between the Buyer and the Seller) as the Seller may think fit (notwithstanding any purported appropriation by the Buyer): and

5.3.3 charge the Buyer interest (both before and after any judgment) on the amount unpaid at the rate of five percent per annum above Lloyds TSB Bank base rate from time to time, until payment in full is made (a part of a month being treated as a full month for the purpose of calculating interest).

6. Delivery
6.1 Delivery of the Goods shall be made by the Buyer collecting the Goods at the Seller’s premises at any time after the Seller has notified the Buyer that the Goods are ready for collection or, if some other place for delivery is agreed by the Seller by the Seller delivering the Goods to that place.

6.2 Any dates quoted for delivery of the Goods are approximate only and the Seller shall not be liable for any delay in delivery of the Goods howsoever caused. Time for de livery shall not be of the essence unless previously agreed by the Seller in Writing. The Goods may be delivered by th e Seller in advance of the quoted delivery date upon giving reasonable notice to the Buyer.

6.3 Where the Goods are to be delivered in instalments, each deliver shall constitute a separate contract and failure by the Seller to deliver any one or more of the instalments in accordance with these Conditions or any claim by the Buyer in respect of any one or more instalments shall not entitle the Buyer to treat the contract as a whole as repudiated.

6.4 If the Seller fails to deliver the Goods for any reason other than any cause beyond the Seller’s reasonable control or the Buyer’s fault, and the Seller is accordingly liable to the Buyer, the Seller’s liability shall be limited to the excess (if any) of the cost to the Buyer (in the cheapest available market) of similar Goods to replace those not delivered over the
price of the Goods.

6.5 If the Buyer fails to take delivery of the Goods or fails to give the Seller adequate delivery instructions at the time stated for delivery (otherwise than by reason of any cause beyond the Buyer’s reasonable control or by reason of the Seller’s fault) then, without prejudice to any other right or remedy available to the Seller, the Seller may:

6.5.1 store the Goods until actual delivery and charge the Buyer for the reasonable costs (including insurance) or the storage and of the transport and handling of the Goods: or

6.5.2 sell the Goods at the best price readily obtainable and (after deducting all reasonable storage and selling expenses) account to the Buyer for the excess over the price under the Contract or charge the Buyer for any shortfall below the price under the Contract.

7. Risk and Property
7.1 Risk of damage to or loss of the Goods shall pass to the Buyer:

7.1.1 in the case of Goods to be delivered at the Seller’s premises, at the time when the Seller notifies the Buyer that the Goods are available for collection or

7.1.2 in the case of Goods to be delivered otherwise than at the Seller’s premises, at the time of delivery and before they are unloaded or, if the Buyer wrongfully fails to take delivery of the Goods at the time when the Seller has tendered delivery of the Goods.

7.2 Notwithstanding delivery and the passing of risk in the Goods, or any other provision of these Conditions, the property in the Goods shall not pass to the Buyer until the Seller has received in cash or cleared funds payment in full of the price of the Goods and all other sums which are or which become due to the Seller from the Buyer for sales of Goods or on any account.

7.3 Until such time as the property in the Goods passes to the Buyer, the Buyer shall hold the Goods as the Seller’s fiduciary agent and bailee, and shall keep the Goods separate from those of the Buyer and third parties and properly stored, protected and insured and identified as the Seller’s property. Until that time the Buyer shall be entitled to resell or use the Goods in the ordinary course of its business, but shall account to the Seller for the proceeds of sale or otherwise of the Goods, whether tangible or intangible including insurance proceeds and shall keep all such proceeds separate from any moneys or property of the Buyer and third parties and, in the case of tangible proceeds, properly stored, protected and insured.

7.4 Until such time as the property in the Goods passes to the Buyer (and provided the Goods are still in existence and have not been resold) the Seller shall be entitled at any time to require the Buyer to deliver up the Goods to the Seller and, if the Buyer fails to do so forthwith to enter upon any premises of the Buyer or any third party where the Goods are stored and repossess the Goods.

7.5 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 moneys owing by the Buyer to the Seller shall (without prejudice to any other right or remedy of the Seller) forthwith become due and payable.

8. Warranties and Liability
8.1 The following conditions shall apply:

8.1.1 the Seller shall be under no liability in respect of any defect in the Goods arising from any drawing, design or specification supplied by the Buyer.

8.1.2 the Seller shall be under no liability in respect of any defect arising from fair wear and tear, willful damage, negligence, abnormal working conditions, failure to follow the Seller’s instructions (whether oral or in Writing) misuse or alteration or repair of the Goods without the Seller’s approval.

8.2 Subject as expressly provided in these Conditions, and except where the Goods are sold by the Seller to a person dealing as a consumer (within the meaning of the unfair Contract Terms Act 1977) all warranties, conditions or other terms implied by statue or common law are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law,

8.3.1 Any claim by the Buyer which is based on any deficiency in the quantity of the Goods supplied shall be notified to the driver of the vehicle delivering the Goods immediately in Writing upon delivery and such notification shall be confirmed in Writing to the Seller within 48 hours from the date of delivery.

8.3.2 Subject to clause 8.3.3 any claim by the Buyer which is based on any defect in the quality or condition of the Goods or their failure to correspond with specification shall (whether or not delivery is refused by the Buyer) be notified to the
Seller in Writing within 48 hours of the date of delivery.

8.3.3 Where the defect or failure was not apparent on reasonable inspection any claim shall be notified within 7 days after discovery of the defect or failure provided that no claim for latent defect shall be admitted after a period of 3 months from the date of delivery. If delivery is not refused and the Buyer does not notify the Seller accordingly, the Buyer shall not be entitled to reject the Goods and the Seller shall have no liability for such defect or failure and the Buyer shall be bound to pay the price as if the Goods had been delivered in accordance with the Contract.

8.4 Where any valid claim in respect of any of the Goods which is based on any defect in the quality or condition of the Goods or deficiency in quantity or their failure to meet specification is notified to the Seller in accordance with these Conditions, the Seller shall be entitled to replacethe Goods (or the part in question) free of charge or, at the Seller’s
sole discretion refund to the Buyer the price of the Goods (or a proportionate part of the price) but the Seller shall have no further liability to the Buyer.

8.5 Except in respect of death or personal injury caused by the Seller’s negligence, the Seller shall not be liable to the Buyer by reason of any representation or any implied warranty, condition or other term, or any duty at common law or under the express terms of the Contract, for any consequential loss or damage (whether for loss of profit or otherwise) costs, expenses or other claims for consequential compensation whatsoever (and whether caused by the negligence of the Seller, its employees or agents or otherwise) which arise out of or in connection with the supply of the Goods or their use or resale by the Buyer, except as expressly provided in these Conditions.

8.6 The Seller shall not be liable to the Buyer or be deemed to be in breach of the Contract by reason of any delay in performing, or any failure to perform, any of the Seller’s obligations in relation to the Goods, if the delay or failure was due to any cause beyond the Seller’s reasonable control. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the
following shall be regarded as causes beyond the Seller’s reasonable control:

8.6.1 Acts of God, explosion, flood, tempest, fire or accident

8.6.2 War or threat of war, sabotage, insurrection, civil disturbance or requisition:

8.6.3 Acts, restrictions, regulation, bye-laws, pro hibitions or measures of any kind on the part of any governmental parliamentary or local authority.

8.6.4 Import or export regulations or embargoes:

8.6.5 Strikes, lock-outs or other industrial actions or trade disputes (whether involving employees of the Seller or a third party):

8.6.6 Difficulties in obtaining raw materials, labour, fuel, parts or machinery:

8.6.7 Power failure or breakdown in machinery

9. Insolvency of Buyer
9.1 This clause applies if:

9.1.1 the Buyer makes any voluntary arrangement with its creditors or becomes subject to an administration order or (being an individual or firm) becomes bankrupt or (
being a company) goes into liquidation (otherwise than for the purposes of amalgamation or reconstruction): or

9.1.2 an encumbrancer takes possession, or a receiver is appointed, of any of the property assets of the Buyer: or

9.1.3 the Buyer ceases, or threatens to cease to carry on business: or

9.1.4 the Seller reasonably apprehends that any of the events mentioned above is about to occur in relation to the Buyer and notifies the Buyer accordingly.

9.2 If this clause applies then, without prejudice to any other right or remedy available to the Seller, the Seller shall be entitled to cancel the Contract or suspend any further deliveries under the Contract without any liability to the Buyer and if the Goods have been delivered but not paid for, the price shall become immediately due and payable notwithstanding any previous agreement to the contrary.

10. General
10.1 The Seller may sub-contract the performance of the Contract in whole or in part. The Contract is between the Seller and the Buyer as principals and shall not be assignable by the Buyer without the express written consent of the Seller.

10.2 Any notice required or permitted to be given by either party to the other under these Conditions shall be in Writing addressed to that other party at its registered office or principal place of business or such other address as may be relevant at the time having been notified pursuant to this provision to the party giving the notice.

10.3 No waiver by the Seller of any breach of the Contract by the Buyer shall be considered as a waiver of any subsequent breach of the same or any other provision.

10.4 If any provision of these Conditions is held by any competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part the validity of the other provisions of these Conditions and the remainder of the provision in question shall not be affected thereby.

10.5 The Contract shall be governed by the laws of England and be subject to the jurisdiction of the English Courts.