Terms
& Conditions of Sale
of The Little Greene Paint Company
All orders are accepted subject to our Standard Conditions of sale
reproduced below which apply to and govern all contracts, quotations,
sales, supplies and deliveries of goods, materials, services and
other products (hereinafter called Products) by The Little Greene
Paint Company Ltd (hereinafter called TLG Ltd) or its representatives
to any individual Firm, Company or other person (hereinafter called ”the
Buyer”) and of all or any other conditions, warranties or terms
otherwise implied or expressed.
The giving of an order by the Buyer to TLG Ltd for any product shall
constitute an unqualified acceptance by the Buyer that if TLG Ltd
accepts the Order, sale supply or delivery of such products by TLG
Ltd will be governed solely by these Conditions of Sale. No variation
of these Conditions of Sale and no oral stipulations or representations
shall be binding on TLG Ltd, unless expressly agreed to in writing
and signed by a Director of TLG Ltd on its behalf.
1. Prices
Except as otherwise expressly stated and contracted TLG Ltd reserves
the right to vary prices and payment dates at any time. Prices
quoted in foreign currency may be adjusted at any time in relation
to variations in the appropriate exchange rate and are ex-works
TLG Ltd premises at Manchester, England. The price does not include
the cost of freight carriage, packing or insurance, which unless
otherwise shown on the invoice and will be additionally charged
to the buyer.
2. Delivery
2.1 TLG Ltd shall make all reasonable efforts to meet ”a delivery
date”. Time shall not be of essence and so long as any circumstances
whatsoever may prevent hinder or delay any delivery.
2.2 TLG Ltd shall not be bound to keep the same and shall not be
liable in any manner whatsoever for failure or delay whilst so prevented
hindered or delayed.
2.3 TLG Ltd reserves the right to deliver by instalments. The buyer
shall inspect all Goods on delivery and unless the buyer takes the
following actions the buyer will be deemed to have accepted the delivery
in full contractual satisfaction of the order:
2.3.1 Buyer shall endorse Carrier’s note appropriately.
2.3.2 Buyer shall advise TLG Ltd immediately by telephone and confirm
such call in writing to TLG Ltd.
2.3.3 Buyer shall send full particulars of claim to TLG Ltd in writing
within 10 days after delivery.
2.4 In case of non-delivery of a consignment, the Buyer shall advise
TLG Ltd within 10 days after date of invoice.
2.5 The Buyer shall be bound to pay for all goods, notwithstanding
any alleged non-delivery or shortage of goods, if the foregoing conditions
have not been complied with.
3. Force Majeure
If during the currency of any contract agreement or order entered
into between TLG Ltd and the Customer, TLG Ltd is delayed or hindered
in or prevented from performing any or all of its obligations hereunder
by war, road blocks, rail blocks, strikes, whether official or
unofficial, lock out, picketing or blocking (secondary or otherwise)
or any action which could reasonably be described as in the furtherance
of or in any way related to an industrial dispute or grievance,
riots, civil commotions, epidemic, fire, explosions, accident,
flood, plant breakdown, or any other cause (whether or not of the
same nature as the foregoing) beyond the reasonable control of
TLG Ltd then TLG Ltd shall not in consequence thereof be under
any liability in contract in relation to the contract agreement
or order and TLG Ltd may if it deems so desirable upon giving notice
to the Customer partially or wholly suspend deliveries of any goods
or preferments of any works during the continuance of such causes
and the Delivery Date or Dates shall be correspondingly extended.
4. Title & Risk
4.1 THE RISK in the Goods shall pass to the Customer as from the
time when the Goods are either:
4.1.1 Where the Customer or his nominee or representative (which
the latter term shall include a carrier nominated by the Customer)
collects the Goods ex-Company’s works delivery shall be effected
by delivery of the Goods to the customer or his nominee or representative
ex-Customers works; or
4.1.2 Delivery to the Customers premises.
4.2 TITLE AND PROPERTY in the Goods shall not pass to the Customer
until whichever of the following events first occurs and until such
time the goods shall remain the sole and absolute property of TLG
Ltd.
4.2.1 The customer shall have paid to TLG Ltd the full amount of
the agreed price together with the full price of any other goods
the subject of any other agreement with TLG Ltd entered into before
or after the Agreement in question.
4.2.2 The Customer in the ordinary course of its business selling
the Goods in which case title to the Goods shall be deemed to have
passed to the Customer immediately prior to delivery of the Goods
to the Customers customer; and
4.2.3 TLG Ltd waiving its rights under this Clause in respect of
specific Goods shall forthwith vest in the Customer.
4.3 Until property in the Goods passes the Customer shall hold the
Goods as bailee for TLG Ltd.
4.4 Notwithstanding that property in the Goods has not yet passed
to the Customer the Customer may nevertheless in the ordinary course
of its business sell the Goods.
4.5 Until the property in the Goods shall have passed to the Customer
any of the Goods remaining in the possession of the Customer shall
be as far as possible kept separate and distinct from all other property
of the Customer or of any persons and stored in such a way as to
be clearly identified as belonging to TLG Ltd.
4.6 TLG Ltd may at all times revoke the power of sale contained
in Condition 4.4 above by notice to the Customer if the Customer
is in default for longer than seven days in the payment of any sum
whatsoever due to (whether in respect of Goods or any goods supplied
at any time by it to the Customer or for any other reason whatsoever)
or TLG Ltd has a bona fide doubt as to the solvency of the Customer.
4.7 The Customers power of sale as contained in Condition 4.4 above
shall automatically cease if the buyer (being a Company) enters
into liquidation whether compulsorily or voluntarily or has a receiver
appointed over all or any part of its assets; or if the Customer
(not being a Company) becomes bankrupt or insolvent or if the Customer
enters into any arrangement with creditors or takes or suffers
any similar action in consequence of debts.
4.8 The Customer power of sale contained in condition 4.4 above
shall automatically cease on the happening of any event or default
which would cause TLG Ltd reasonably to consider that its Title to
the Goods may adversely affect and the Customer shall notify TLG
Ltd forthwith of the happening of any such event or default.
5. Warranty
TLG Ltd hereby warrants its title to the goods but save as to this
warranty as to title no other warranty condition or other terms
as to the characteristics of the goods, their quality or fitness
for any purpose is given or accepted and any warranty condition
or other such term whether implied by statute at common law or
otherwise is hereby excluded from this contract notwithstanding
that the purpose for which the goods are to be used is made known
to TLG Ltd.
Without prejudice to the above:
5.1.1 TLG Ltd reserves the right to refuse to accept at its own
discretion any repeat orders for specialised goods made specifically
to the Buyers requirements.
5.1.2 TLG Ltd does not warrant that instalments of or batches of
repeat orders of any product shall comply with the specification
or colour match of any other instalment batch or order. In the event
that there shall be any said variation of specification or colour
match the liability of TLG Ltd shall be limited to the invoice price
of the instalment batch or order concerned. It is the Buyer’s
absolute obligation to specify clearly the product being ordered
and the specification required. TLG Ltd accept no liability for the
failure of the Buyer to order the correct product or specification.
Wherever appropriate TLG Ltd will endeavour to assist Buyers with
technical advice and specifications but the Buyer shall at all times
be responsible for ordering the correct product or specification
and deciding upon fitness for purpose of the product.
6. Miscellaneous
TLG Ltd shall have the right in its absolute discretion and without
assigning any reason therefore and notwithstanding any contract
the Customer may have made with a third party to terminate without
notice any agreement to make supplies to any person or to refuse
or limit the amount of credit to be given to any person and to
withhold supplies to any person.
7. Patents & Trademarks & Health & Safety
No Representation, Warranty or Indemnity is given by TLG Ltd that
the goods do not infringe any Letter, Patent, Trade Mark, Registered
Designs or other industrial rights. In compliance with the Health & Safety
at Work Act 1974, TLG Ltd’s Product Labels give (as required
by the Statutory Regulations for the labelling of Paint, Ink and
other ancillary products) information of known hazards associated
with the product and sales literature states their properties.
However almost all Products may be hazardous in certain conditions
if handled and applied without due care. TLG Ltd’s resources
are available on request to provide any information Buyers may
require in order to meet their obligations under the Safety at
Work Act 1974. The Buyer shall after delivery of the goods be solely
responsible for their safe and satisfactory storage and shall be
responsible for complying with any statutory or other requirement
with regard to the storage use or handling of the goods. The Buyer
shall indemnify TLG Ltd against any claim by any Third Party caused
by products delivered by TLG Ltd proving not to be fit and suitable
for such Third Party’s purposes for any reason.
8. Liability for Accidents & Damage
TLG Ltd and its servants or agents (on whose behalf TLG Ltd hereby
contracts) shall not be liable to the Buyer for loss injury damage
or claim consequential or direct or natural of any kind whatsoever
arising out of or in connection with the execution of this contract
or arising out of or in connection with the use of goods supplied
by TLG Ltd save and except where such loss injury damage or claim
be occasioned by the negligence of TLG Ltd or of any employee of
TLG Ltd.
9. Governing Law
This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with
English Law. The Buyer irrevocably submits in respect of all matters
and disputes arising out of this Agreement to the exclusive jurisdiction
of the English Courts.
10. Assignment
This Contract is personal to the Buyer and may only be assigned with
the written consent of TLG Ltd.
11. Payment & Discount
11.1 In the case of purchase by persons or companies
not holding trading accounts, all payments shall be completed in
advance of despatch
of goods
12. Cancellation of Goods
Orders for Products may not be cancelled or suspended without TLG
Ltd’s prior written consent. Any cancellation or suspension
of an order with TLG Ltd does not agree to shall be on the condition
that the Buyer shall indemnify TLG Ltd against any loss incurred
wholly or in part by the cancellation or suspension. Specifically
cancellations of orders for non-stock lines will not be accepted
once the paints have commenced manufacture.
13. Return of Goods
No Goods are supplied on a sale or return basis. There should be
no liability on TLG Ltd to accept returned Goods. Any Goods returned
by a Buyer or anybody acting on his behalf will remain the risk
of the Buyer and TLG Ltd for the avoidance of doubt confirms that
no liability of any description is accepted in respect of returned
Goods.
14. Confirmation of Orders
In order to avoid orders being duplicated, all orders that are confirmation
of orders previously placed shall clearly indicate the fact. Unless
clear indication is given that any order verbal or written is confirmation
of an earlier order whether verbal or written the Buyer shall accept
delivery of the goods and pay for the same in full.
Where the Buyer orders standard or non-standard products which are
specifically tinted, manufactured or produced to his unique requirements,
the Buyer shall accept the supply or a quantity whether more or less
within 10% of the stipulated amounts in such circumstances the Invoice
value of the goods shall be subject to a corresponding adjustment.
15. Export
Without prejudice to these Conditions of Sale, products for export
shall be at the Buyer’s risk from the time of collection
by the Freight Carrier from the Company’s Works. All prices
quoted are ex-works TLG Ltd’s premises and will be exclusive
of all Taxes, Duties, Insurance, Packing and Freight, unless otherwise
expressly quoted for in writing and any other costs incurred by
TLG Ltd but not included in the price of the products.
15.1 The uniform Law on International Sales shall not apply to this
contract. The terms of payment shall be as specified in writing by
TLG Ltd.
15.2 Where the prices quoted are in any currency other than Sterling,
these prices are based on the relevant exchange rate of the currency
concerned ruling on the date of quotation and TLG Ltd reserves the
right to vary the prices it there shall be any change incurred in
the rate at the time of despatch.
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