1. Definitions
"SBS" - Softbox Systems Limited
"Customer" - the person, firm or
company with whom or with which SBS contracts;
"Contract" - the contract for the
sale and purchase of the Goods formed by the
Customer's acceptance of these terms;
"Goods" - all or any of the goods
which SBS is to sell in accordance with the
Contract;
"Act of Insolvency" - shall be deemed
to mean and include any one or more of the
following namely the passing of a resolution
or the presentation of a petition for winding-up
the presentation of a petition for the appointment
of an administrator, the appointment of a
receiver and/or manager or administrative
receiver over the whole or any part of the
Customer's undertaking and assets, making
of a proposal for a voluntary arrangement
within Part 1 Insolvency Act 1986 or a proposal
for any other composition scheme or arrangement
with or the calling by the Customer of any
meeting of its creditors generally, the presentation
of a petition in respect of a bankruptcy order,
an application for an interim order in connection
with any proposals for a voluntary arrangement
of the Customer's affairs, anything analogous
to any of the foregoing under the law of any
jurisdiction.
2. Basis of Contract
These conditions shall govern the Contract
to the exclusion of any other terms and conditions.
Qualifications of these terms and conditions
contained in any document of the Customer
will be inapplicable unless expressly accepted
in writing by SBS. All implied conditions
and warranties and other terms whether implied
by statute or at common law or otherwise and
whether as to quality, fitness for purpose,
performance, merchantability or otherwise
in relation to the goods and to the sale or
supply thereof by SBS are hereby excluded.
3. Quantity
The price is for the stipulated quantity of
goods only and must not be taken to apply
to an order for any lesser quantities. All
quotations for goods to be delivered from
stock are subject to these goods being available
on receipt of order.
4. Tolerance
No claim will be allowable on the grounds
that goods supplied do not conform to certain
dimensions where it is shown that such goods
come within the bounds of a stated and agreed
tolerance.
5. Colour
Colour shall be subject to reasonable variation.
6. Delivery
Any stipulated period of time for delivery
shall date from the receipt by SBS of the
Customer's written order to proceed or of
all necessary information and drawings enabling
SBS to put the work in hand, whichever shall
be the later. Where the Goods are delivered
in instalments, each delivery shall constitute
a separate contract and failure by SBS to
deliver any one or more of the instalments
or any claim by the Customer in respect of
any one or more instalments shall not entitle
the Customer to treat the Contract as a whole
as repudiated. Where delivery of the goods
is to be made by SBS in bulk SBS reserves
the right to deliver up to 10 per cent more
or less than the quantity ordered and the
price shall be adjusted accordingly. SBS shall
not be liable for any loss or damage which
may be sustained by the Customer through failure
on the part of SBS to deliver at the rate
or within the time specified, nor for any
loss or damage incurred by reason of Acts
of God, war, riots, fires, strikes, lockout,
cessation of labour, accidents of any kind,
inability to procure materials or articles
required for the performance of the order
or any other cause whatsoever beyond SBS'
control whether similar to those aforesaid
or not. In the event of any such delay from
any cause beyond SBS' control continuing for
a period of more than three calendar months,
SBS reserves the right to cancel the Contract
by notice in writing in respect of any Goods
undelivered at the time of the giving of such
notice. No claim for loss or damage in transit
or non-delivery will be claimable unless the
Customer shall have advised SBS and the carriers
within three days of the termination of the
transit, or, in the case of non-delivery within
fourteen days from the date of the invoice.
7. Risk and Title
In the case of Goods to be collected from
SBS the point of delivery and transfer of
risk shall occur as the Goods are loaded on
to the collection vehicle or as the Goods
pass out of SBS’ storage area as the
case may be. In the case where Goods are delivered
to an address in Great Britain the delivery
point shall occur as the Goods are removed
from the transportation vehicle. Off loading
shall be at the Customer’s risk. Notwithstanding
delivery and passing of risk, property in
and title to the Goods shall remain in SBS
(which reserves the right to dispose of them)
until SBS has received payment in cash or
cleared funds of all debts owed by the Customer
to the Company in respect of the supply of
goods or services. The Customer’s power
to deal with the Goods shall automatically
cease if the Customer shall commit or be subject
to any Act of Insolvency. Until title in the
Goods passes to the Customer under this condition
the Customer shall place the Goods at the
disposal of the Company and the Company and
its servants and agents are hereby irrevocably
authorised without the need for consent of
any third party using only such force as may
be necessary to enter upon any premises of
the Customer for the purpose of removing the
Goods.
8. Consequential Loss
SBS shall not be liable for personal injuries
or consequential damage or loss arising from
any defects (including in particular damage
to goods or persons caused by leakage from
or explosion of a bottle, container or moulding
supplied by SBS) or from the use of any of
SBS’ Goods.
9. Terms of Payment
Unless otherwise stated on the quotation payment
for goods shall be due by the Customer on
the last day of the month following the date
of invoice. SBS may appropriate any payment
made by the Customer to such of the Goods
(or the goods supplied under any other contract
between SBS and the Customer) as SBS may think
fit (notwithstanding any purported appropriation
by the Customer). The Customer shall not be
entitled to withhold or delay payment or exercise
any right of set-off whatsoever and howsoever
arising or arisen which might otherwise be
available to it.
10. Price Variations
If during the Contract there are increases
in labour, material or transport costs, SBS
may submit to the Customer a revised price
and such revised price may have regard not
only to such specific items. In the event
of the Customer not agreeing to pay any such
increased revised price SBS shall have the
option of continuing the Contract on existing
terms or regarding the Contract as terminated
and in the latter event may terminate the
Contract by notice to the Customer to that
effect.
11. Intellectual Property
Rights
If the Goods are to be manufactured or any
process is to be applied to the Goods by SBS
in accordance with a specification or design
submitted by the Customer, the Customer shall
(without prejudice to the other rights and
remedies of the Company) indemnify SBS in
full against all loss, costs, damages, charges,
expenses and other liabilities suffered or
incurred by the Company as a result of or
in connection with:
(i) any allegation relating to infringement
of any patent, copyright design, registered
trade or service mark or other industrial
or intellectual property rights of any kind
or any person, firm or company and/or passing
off and/or unauthorised use of confidential
information which results from the Company’s
use of the Customer’s specification
or design;
(ii) any other liability of any kind to any
third party including without limitation for
defective goods, personal injury or death
to the extent that it arises from the specification
or design.
12. Insolvency
If there shall be an Act of Insolvency in
relation to the Customer then SBS shall be
entitled to cancel the Contract or suspend
any further deliveries under the Contract
without any liability to the Customer and
if Goods and Services have been delivered
but have not been paid for, the price shall
become immediately due and payable notwithstanding
any previous agreement or arrangement to the
contrary.
13. General
It shall be the responsibility of the Customer
to ensure that all requirements applicable
to the Contract, whether statutory, regulatory,
municipal and/or otherwise howsoever (including
without limitation any relating to the importation
or use of the Goods in the country of destination
and for the payment of duties thereon) are
duly complied with. No failure to delay on
the part of the Company to exercise any of
its rights under the Contract shall operate
as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single
or partial exercise of any such right preclude
any other or further exercise thereof. Any
waiver by SBS of any breach by the Customer
of any of its obligations under the Contract
shall not affect the rights of SBS in the
event of any further or additional breach
or breaches. Each and every obligation contained
in these conditions shall be treated as a
separate obligation and shall be severally
enforceable as such notwithstanding the non-enforceability
of any other such obligation. Any notice required
to be given in writing under the Contract
shall be given, where possible, by facsimile
transmission and otherwise by first class
post addressed to the registered office (in
the case of a limited company) or to the last
known address of the party for which it is
intended, or to such other address as may
be notified in writing by either party to
the other for the purpose, and shall be deemed
to have been received, in the case of a facsimile
transmission, upon transmission and, in the
case of a letter, forty-eight hours after
posting. In providing service by letter, it
shall be sufficient to show that the envelope
containing the notice was properly addressed
and stamped and duly posted.
14. Jurisdiction
The Contract shall in all respects be governed
by and constructed in accordance with English
Law and it is irrevocably agreed that the
Courts of England are to have jurisdiction
in respect thereof.