1. DEFINITIONS In
these conditions the following words shall have unless
the context requires otherwise the meanings set out opposite
them:
1.1 'the Company' shall mean LTE Scientific
Limited;
1.2 'the Customer' shall mean any person
firm company or organisation to whom the Company agrees
to sell 'the Goods';
1.3 'the Goods' shall mean the goods
and/or services (and any parts or components thereof)
the subject matter of the contract to which these conditions
apply.

2. GENERAL
2.1 All contracts for the
sale of the Goods by the Company are made subject to
these conditions of sale which supersede any earlier
sets of conditions issued by the Company. Any stipulations
or conditions in the Customer's order form or other document
delivered by the Customer which would if applicable conflict
with these conditions or in any way qualify or negative
the same shall be deemed to be inapplicable to the Company
unless the same shall have been expressly agreed to in
writing in a document signed by a director of the Company.
No other servant or agent of the Company has any authority
to alter or qualify these conditions in any way.
2.2 The Company reserves the right
by notice in writing to the Customer signed by a director
of the Company to add to amend or vary these conditions
at any time before acceptance of delivery of or payment
for the Goods.
2.3 Acceptance of delivery of the Goods
or payment for the Goods by the Customer to the Company
shall of itself constitute an acceptance of these conditions
where acceptance has not previously been communicated
to the Company.
2.4 Quotations shall be available for
acceptance (unless expressly stated otherwise) for a
maximum period of 90 days from the date thereof and may
be withdrawn by the Company within such period at any
time by written or oral notice.
2.5 If any statement or representation
has been made to the Customer by the Company its servants
or agents upon which the Customer relies other than in
the documents enclosed with the Company's quotation or
acknowledgement of order then the Customer must set out
that statement or representation in a document to be
attached to or endorsed on the order and in any such
case the Company may confirm reject or clarify the point
and submit a new quotation.
3. DELIVERY
3.1 Time for delivery is
given as accurately as possible but is not guaranteed.
3.2 In the event that the Goods are
not delivered on the date stipulated then the Customer
shall accept delivery of the Goods within such further
period which is reasonable in all the circumstances provided
that if the Customer is of the reasonable opinion that
such reasonable period has expired he shall give written
notice to that effect to the Company stating his reasons
for such opinion whereupon such reasonable period shall
be deemed to expire 15 days after the service of such
notice. The Customer shall have no right to claim damages
or cancel the order for any delay in delivery not exceeding
15 days beyond such reasonable period.
3.3 Any notification of loss or damage
in transit must be given to the Company in writing within
3 days of delivery. Any notification of non delivery
of the Goods must be given to the Company within 14 days
of the receipt of the invoice by the Customer. The Customer
shall have no right to repaired or replacement Goods
when damaged or not delivered unless these notice requirements
are complied with.
3.4 The Company shall not be required
to fulfil orders in the sequence in which they are placed.
3.5 Failure by the Customer to take
delivery of or to make payment in respect of the Goods
or any one or more instalments of the Goods shall entitle
the Company to treat the whole of the contract as repudiated
by the Customer.
3.6 Without prejudice to condition
3.5 the Company will endeavour to comply with reasonable
requests by the Customer for postponement of delivery
of the Goods but shall be under no obligation to do so
and where delivery is postponed by agreement otherwise
than due to default by the Company the Customer shall
pay all costs and expenses including a reasonable charge
for storage and transportation occasioned thereby and
payment for the Goods shall be made on the date payment
would have been due had delivery not been postponed.
3.7 Any special delivery requirements
must be notified to the Company in writing at the time
of placing the order.
4. PASSING OF PROPERTY AND RISK
4.1
Risk shall pass to the Customer so that the Customer
is responsible for all loss damage or deterioration to
the Goods:
4.1.1 if the Company delivers the Goods
by its own transport or in accordance with a specific
contractual obligation arranges transport for the Goods
at the time when the Goods arrive at the place of delivery; 4.1.2 in all other circumstances at
the time when the Goods leave the Company.
4.2 Title to the Goods or any part
thereof shall not pass to the Customer until:
4.2.1 the Customer has paid to the
Company all sums due and payable by it to the Company
under this contract and all other prior contracts between
the Company and the Customer; or
4.2.2 the Company serves notice in
writing on the Customer specifying that title in the
Goods or any specified part thereof has passed to the
Customer;
and until title to the Goods has passed
to the Customer the Customer shall possess the Goods
or any part thereof as a bailee of the Company and shall
store the Goods or any part thereof separately from other
goods so as to ensure that they are clearly identifiable
as the property of the Company.
4.3 The Company shall be entitled to
recover Goods in respect of which title has not passed
to the Customer at any time and the Customer hereby licences
the Company its officers employees and agents to enter
upon any premises of the Customer for the purpose of
recovering any Goods in respect of which title has not
passed to the Customer.
4.4 The Customer shall only be at liberty
to sell the Goods hereunder prior to the passing of title
to the Customer on the understanding that that portion
of the proceeds of sale of the Goods which represents
the sums due to the Company hereunder belong to the Company
and are held by the Customer on trust for the Company
and are paid into a separate bank account designated
as a trust account for the Company.
5. PRICE
5.1 All prices are unless
otherwise stated quoted net as Ex-works exclusive of VAT
or other tax or duty relating to the sale or delivery
of the Goods chargeable to the Customer and the cost
of carriage and packaging shall be charged extra.
5.2 Unless otherwise agreed in writing
between the Company and the Customer the price of the
Goods shall be the current price as stated in the Company's
price list at the date of the despatch of the Goods.
6. TERMS OF PAYMENT
6.1 Unless otherwise
agreed by the Company in writing payment for the Goods
shall be paid in full and received by the Company within
30 days of the date of the Company's invoice. Except
as may otherwise have been agreed in writing, the Company
shall be entitled to submit its invoice upon delivery
or at any time thereafter save that where delivery has
been postponed at the request of or by the default of
the Customer then the Company may submit its invoice
at any time after the Goods are ready for delivery or
would have been ready for delivery in the ordinary course
but for the request or default as aforesaid or at such
time as stipulated by the Company to the Customer in
writing.
6.2 Where the Goods are delivered by
instalments the Company may invoice each instalment separately
and the Customer shall pay such invoices in accordance
with these conditions.
6.3 In the event of default in payment
by the Customer the Company shall be entitled without
prejudice to any other right or remedy the Company has
under these conditions and without prior notice to suspend
all further deliveries on any contract or contracts between
the Company and the Customer and to charge interest on
the amount outstanding at the rate of 5% above the base
rate of The Royal Bank of Scotland plc from time to time
in force throughout the period the amount is outstanding.
A cheque tendered by the Customer in payment shall not
be treated as payment until the same has been cleared.
7. CANCELLATION
Cancellation of this
contract will only be agreed to by the Company on condition
that all costs and expenses incurred by the Company up
to the time of cancellation and all loss of profits and
other loss or damage resulting to the Company by reason
of such cancellation will be paid forthwith by the Customer
to the Company.
8. SPECIFICATIONS
The Company reserves
the right to supply the Goods to the specification and/or
design current at the date of despatch. The Company cannot
accept any order which requests the Goods 'as previously
supplied' as a binding and valid order.
9. DEFECTS AND SHORTAGES
The Company
shall not be liable for:
9.1 any defects or shortages in the
quality or state of the Goods which would be apparent
on visual inspection unless the Customer shall have inspected
the Goods within 3 working days of arrival at its premises
and shall have given within 14 days of arrival of the
Goods at its premises a written notice to the Company
specifying the matters complained of and shall have afforded
the Company a reasonable opportunity of inspecting the
Goods before they have been used processed or sold;
9.2 any defects or shortages in the
quality or state of the Goods not apparent on visual
inspection unless the Customer shall have given written
notice to the Company specifying the matters complained
of as soon as reasonably practicable after discovery
of such matters and in any event no later than twelve
months after the date of arrival of the Goods at the
Customer's premises and shall have immediately after
discovery of such matters ceased to make any use of the
Goods and shall have afforded the Company a reasonable
opportunity to inspect the Goods;
9.3 loss or damage suffered by reason
of use of the Goods after the Customer becomes aware
of a defect or after the Customer becomes aware of circumstances
which should reasonably have indicated the existence
of a defect.
10. GUARANTEE
10.1 In the event that
the Goods are defective in quality or state or are otherwise
not in accordance with the contract then the Customer
shall require (in lieu of any legal remedy which may
otherwise have been due to the Customer) the Company
to repair or supply satisfactory substitute Goods and
the Company provided the Customer has complied with the
requirements as to notice contained in these conditions
shall be obliged at its option to repair or take back
the defective Goods and supply satisfactory substitute
Goods to the Customer free of cost and within a reasonable
time. Upon the Company repairing the defective Goods
or supplying satisfactory substitute Goods then the Customer
shall be bound to accept such repaired or substitute
Goods and the Company shall be under no liability to
the Customer in respect of any loss or damage whatsoever
arising from the initial delivery of defective Goods
or from the delay before the defective Goods are repaired
or the substitute Goods are delivered.
10.2 In the event that the Goods are
not manufactured by the Company then the Company gives
no assurance warranty or guarantee whatsoever that the
sale or use of the Goods will not infringe patent, copyright,
registered design, design copyright or other intellectual
property rights of any other person, firm or company.
11. LIABILITY
Save where the Company
can be shown to have failed to exercise reasonable
care in the manufacture and/or supply of the Goods and
such failure results in death or personal injury the
Company shall not without prejudice to condition 10 be
liable to the Customer for loss, injury or damage of
any kind whatsoever consequential or otherwise (including
without limitation removal or rectification work required
in connection with the installation of repaired or substitute
Goods) which results directly or indirectly from the
Company's supply of or failure to supply Goods to the
Customer.
12. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
All drawings,
documents, confidential records, computer software and
other information supplied by the Company are supplied
on the express understanding that copyright is reserved
to the Company and that the Customer will not without
the written consent of the Company either give away,
loan, exhibit or sell any such drawings, documents, records,
software or other information or extracts therefrom or
copies thereof or use them in any way except in connection
with the Goods in respect of which they are supplied.
13. CUSTOMER'S DRAWINGS
13.1 The Customer
shall be solely responsible for ensuring that all drawings,
information, advice and recommendations given to the
Company either directly or indirectly by the Customer
or by the Customer's agents, servants, consultants or
advisers are accurate, correct and suitable. Examination
or consideration by the Company of such drawings, information,
advice or recommendations shall in no way limit the Customers
responsibility hereunder unless the Company specifically
agrees in writing to accept responsibility.
13.2 The Customer shall indemnify the
Company from and against all actions, claims, costs and
proceedings which arise due to the manufacture of the
Goods to the drawings or specifications of the Customer
where such drawings or specifications are at fault or
where it is alleged that they involve an infringement
of patent, copyright, registered design, design copyright
or other exclusive intellectual property right.
14. DATA AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
The
information contained in the advertising sales and technical
literature issued by the Company may be relied upon to
be accurate in the exact circumstances in which it is
expressed otherwise any illustrations, performance details,
examples of installations and methods of assembly and
all other technical data in such literature are based
on experience and upon trials under test conditions and
are provided for general guidance only. No such information
shall form part of the contract unless the Customer shall
have complied with condition 2.5 hereof relating to statements
and representations.
15. HEALTH AND SAFETY
The Customer must
take all necessary precautions during the handling, use
and storage of the Goods in accordance with all available
information concerning the Goods.
16. CONTAMINATED GOODS
The Company reserves
the right not to repair or otherwise handle goods which
the Company believes are contaminated with hazardous
chemical, biological or radioactive materials. Before
the Goods are returned to the Company's premises for
whatever reason the Customer shall either give a signed
declaration that the Goods are free from all such contamination
or give a written warning that the Goods could be contaminated
and provide the necessary expert advice on safe handling,
cleaning and decontamination.
17. INSOLVENCY
If the Customer shall
become bankrupt or unable to pay its debts as prescribed
by Section 123 Insolvency Act 1986 or compound with its
creditors or in the event of a resolution being passed
or proceedings commenced for the administration or liquidation
of the Customer (other than for a voluntary winding up
for the purpose of reconstruction or amalgamation) or
if a Receiver, Manager, Administrator or Administrative
Receiver is appointed of all or any part of its assets
or undertaking the Company shall be entitled to cancel
the contract in whole or in part by notice in writing
without prejudice to any right or remedy accrued or accruing
to the Company.
18. FORCE MAJEURE
In the event that
the manufacture or delivery of any of the Goods is
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
notwithstanding that the Company has taken all reasonable
steps to procure the same, shortage of labour, break
down or partial failure of plant and machinery, late
receipt of the Customer's specifications or other necessary
information, acts, orders or regulations of Government,
delay on the part of any independent sub-contractor or
supplier or any other cause whatsoever beyond the reasonable
control of the Company then the time for delivery of
the Goods shall be extended for a reasonable period having
regard to the effect of the delaying cause on the manufacture
or delivery.
19. NOTICES
Any notice required
to be given by either the Company or the Customer to
the other shall be deemed to be properly served if sent
by prepaid letter posted to its registered office, principal
place of business or such other address as may from time
to time be notified to the other for this purpose and
any notice served shall be deemed to have been served
24 hours after the time of posting and in proving such
service it shall be sufficient to prove that the notice
was properly addressed and posted.
20. ENGLISH LAW
The contract made hereunder
shall be governed and interpreted according to English
Law and the Company and the Customer hereby submit themselves
to the jurisdiction of the English Courts.
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