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Terms and Conditions of
Sale
1. For the purposes of these Terms and Conditions, Go Sheet
Metal shall mean and include the party named above, and/or the Supplier
of the goods and services sold; and Customer shall mean the party to
whom goods and services are sold and/or in whose name an Account is
maintained by Go Sheet Metal.
2. GENERAL: These Terms and Conditions shall apply to the exclusion of
all others (whether on the Customer's order form or otherwise). NO
goods or services will be supplied by Go Sheet Metal on any terms and
conditions other than those set out herein and by taking delivery of
the goods the Customer shall be deemed to agree to these Terms and
Conditions.
1. PAYMENT: The customer agrees to comply with Go Sheet Metal's trading
terms, and payment for goods and services shall be made by the Customer
to Go Sheet Metal seven (7) days from the date of invoice. It is agreed
that if the Customer does not make payment within the specified period
herein, the Customer will pay to Go Sheet Metal by way of liquidated
damages, a default charge calculated by the application of a daily
percentage rate of 0.06% on the unpaid balance of the amount, due from
the due date for payment until the date the total sum due to Go Sheet
Metal is fully paid.
2. CLAIMS: (1) The Customer will be deemed to have accepted the good or
services as being in accordance with its order unless it notifies Go
Sheet Metal in writing of its claim within 7 days of receipt of the
goods. (2) Go Sheet Metal will accept no return of allegedly defective
or faulty goods unless Go Sheet Metal has given prior written
authorization for the return. (3) If the Buyer does not notify Go Sheet
Metal within 7 days of delivery the Buyer shall be deemed to have
accepted the Goods as merchantable quality and free of defects.
3. FORCE MAJEURE: Deliveries may be totally or partially suspended by
Go Sheet Metal during any period in which Go Sheet Metal may be
prevented or hindered from delivering by Go Sheet Metal 's normal means
of supply or delivery by normal route through any circumstances outside
reasonable control, including but not limited to strikes, lockouts, raw
material shortages, accidents or breakdown of plant or machinery. Go
Sheet Metal shall not be under any liability in respect of such
suspension, and in particular Go Sheet Metal shall be under no
obligation to deliver at any future date any goods not delivered during
the period of suspension.
4. WARRANTY: All warranties whether expressed or implied and whether
statutory or otherwise with regard to the goods supplied by Go Sheet
Metal as to quality, fitness for purpose or any other matter are hereby
excluded except insofar as any such warranties are incapable of
exclusion at law. The liability of Go Sheet Metal for damages arising
out of the contract shall be limited to the costs of rectification of
any faulty workmanship or material, or the replacement of any faulty
goods, and Go Sheet Metal accepts no responsibility or liability
whatsoever including liability for negligence, goods that do not
correspond with the description on Go Sheet Metal's invoice and/or the
packaging of the goods sold or any liability for consequential loss
however arising.
5. DELIVERY: Quoted delivery & consignment dates are estimates
only. Go Sheet Metal will make all reasonable efforts to have the Goods
delivered to the Buyer on the date agreed between the parties as the
quoted date, but Go Sheet Metal shall be under no liability whatsoever
should delivery not be made on this date.
6. FREIGHT COSTS: Go Sheet Metal shall not be liable for freight costs
on goods returned to it by the Customer.
7. DEFAULT: In the event of the Customer's default under these
Terms and Conditions the Customer shall pay to Go Sheet Metal on demand
all costs, including without limitation, all legal costs, all
mercantile agents fees incurred by Go Sheet Metal in recovering or
attempting to recover all amounts outstanding and payable under these
Terms and Conditions and any dishonor or bank fees incurred by Go Sheet
Metal relating to payments made by the Customer from time to time.
8. CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP: The Customer agrees to notify Go Sheet Metal in
writing of any change of ownership of the Customer within 7 days from
the date of such change and indemnifies Go Sheet Metal against any loss
or damage incurred by it as a result of the Customer's failure to
notify of any change.
9. CANCELLATION: Orders placed with Go Sheet Metal cannot be cancelled
without the written approval of Go Sheet Metal. In the event that Go
Sheet Metal accepts the cancellation of any order placed with it, it
shall be entitled to charge a reasonable fee for work done on behalf of
Go Sheet Metal to the date of the cancellation including a fee for the
processing and acceptance of the Customer's order and request for
cancellation.
10. LIEN: The Customer hereby acknowledges that Go Sheet Metal has a
lien over all goods in its possession belonging to the Customer to
secure payment of any or all amounts outstanding from time to time.
1. RISK AND INSURANCE: Goods supplied by Go Sheet Metal to the Customer
shall be at the Customer's risk immediately on delivery to the Customer
or into the Customer's custody (whichever is the sooner). The Customer
should insure the goods thereafter at its cost against such risks as it
thinks appropriate and shall note the interest of Go Sheet Metal on the
policy and shall produce a certificate to this effect to the Go Sheet
Metal on request.
2. TITLE TO GOODS: (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary express
or implied, property in the goods shall remain with Go Sheet Metal and
shall not pass to the Customer until Go Sheet Metal has received
payment in full for the goods and the Customer has discharged in full
all it's accounts with Go Sheet Metal relating to all contracts made
with Go Sheet Metal. (2) If payment is made by the Customer by way of
cheque, ownership shall not pass to the Customer until the cheque has
been honored. (3) Until the goods are fully paid for the Customer shall
hold the goods as a Trustee of Go Sheet Metal and shall keep the goods
as a fiducially for Go Sheet Metal and shall store and identify goods
in a manner that clearly shows Go Sheet Metal's ownership thereof.
3. POWER TO SELL GOODS: Nothing herein contained shall prevent the
Customer from selling the goods to any third party provided that the
proceeds of any such sale shall be held in trust by the Customer for Go
Sheet Metal until Go Sheet Metal has received payment in full for the
goods.
4. JURISDICTION: The proper law of all contracts arising between Go
Sheet Metal and the Customer is the law of the State or Territory in
which Go Sheet Metal's principal office is located and the parties
agree that all claims and disputes relating to the goods sold shall be
determined in a Court of competent jurisdiction nearest such principle
office and the parties irrevocably agree to submit to the non-exclusive
jurisdiction of such Court.
5. GOODS AND SERVICES TAX: Should any Goods & Services Tax
as levied under the new Tax System (Goods & Services Tax) Act 1999
(as amended) and any other tax, fee, levy or duty imposed by any
competent authority be payable on any of the Goods supplied by the
Company, such tax, fee levy or duty will be to the Purchaser's account
and shall be calculated using the rates and methods of assessment in
force at the time of Delivery. The Purchaser is liable for any other
applicable tax, including, without limitation, withholding tax.
ALTERATION TO CONDITIONS: Go Sheet Metal may, at any time and
from time to time, alter these Terms and Conditions of Quotation and
Sale.
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