Terms & conditions
Terms and Conditions of Sale
1. In these conditions the “Seller” means MB Wilkes Ltd. The “Buyer” means the
customer named on any Order Confirmation or Invoice of the Seller or any person to whom
the same is addressed.
2. Any contract incorporating these conditions or made pursuant hereto shall be governed by
and construed in accordance with the laws of England.
3. The Seller shall not be bound by any order placed by the Buyer (whether or not such order
purports to be an acceptance of any quotation or offer made by the Seller) until it is accepted
by the Seller. Such acceptance shall be evidenced by the Seller’s written Order Confirmation
or Invoice. Any goods delivered by the Seller to the Buyer (hereinafter called “the Goods”)
will be supplied subject to these terms to the exclusion of any standard terms of the Buyer and
(if a contract of sale has not previously come into existence) acceptance to the Buyer of any
such Goods shall constitute acceptance of these terms.
4. Unless stated to be a fixed price, the prices specified in any Contract made subject to these
conditions may be increased by the Seller upon Notice to the Buyer at any time before
delivery to take account of any increase in the cost to the Seller of the Goods comprised in
such contract or the cost of materials, labour and/or overheads relating to the production of
such Goods which shall have occurred since the date on which such prices were first quoted to
the Buyer and the Seller’s certificate of the amount of such increase shall be binding upon the
Buyer.
5. All risk in the Goods shall pass to the Buyer and the Buyer shall be fully responsible
therefore upon delivery.
5.1 For so long as the whole or any part of the purchase price of the Goods or any other amounts
remain owing from the Buyer to the Seller (whether immediately due or not) title to and
property in the Goods will remain in the Seller and will not pass to the Buyer until the Seller
has received payment thereof in full. All Goods which remain the property of the Seller will
be held by the Buyer on behalf of the Seller in a fiduciary capacity and the Buyer shall keep
them fully insured and in good and substantial repair and condition. The Buyer may resell
such Goods to a third party in the ordinary course of its business and in such event, if the
Seller has not then received the whole of the purchase price and all other amounts owing to it
in full the Buyer will account to the Seller for the proceeds of such sale of such Goods and
meanwhile will hold them upon trust for the Seller until the Seller has received payment of
the price and all such other amounts in full; and further the Seller may by notice in writing to
the Buyer require that any proceeds of such sale shall be credited to a separate account and/or
paid over forthwith to the Seller. At any time after the due date for payment of the whole or
any part of the purchase price for the Goods or any other amount owing from the Buyer to
the Seller and so long as payment thereof has not been received by the Seller in full the
Seller, at the Buyer’s expense, shall be entitled to require the Buyer to return to the Seller and
shall have the right (acting through its officers, employees or agents) to enter the Buyer’s
premises and remove therefrom all Goods which remain the property of the Seller.
6. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, if the Buyer shall be adjudicated
bankrupt or have a receiving order made against him, or being a company, shall apply for or
become subject to an administration order, pass a resolution for winding up or suffer a winding
up order to be made against it or have a receiver or an administration receiver appointed of the
whole or any part of its assets, or is in arrear with any payments due to the Seller, or in the
opinion of the Seller is, or will be unable to pay its debt, or being a company, becomes
indebted to the Seller in an amount exceeding 10 per cent of its net tangible assets value as
appearing from its last audited balance sheet then:
6.1. The Seller may elect not to deliver the Goods except against payment in cash of all amounts
owing to the Seller by the Buyer in full, and
6.2. The Seller may suspend further deliveries under or cancel any unfulfilled contracts, and
6.3. All monies owing from the Buyer to the Seller shall become immediately due and payable.
7. Unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing, the Goods will be delivered to such address (not
being outside the UK) as the Buyer may require in writing and the cost of carriage to such
address will be payable by the Buyer.
8. Delivery dates are given in good faith but are not guaranteed and no lability will be accepted
for any losses, costs, damages or expense suffered by the Buyer as a result of failure to meet
any date for delivery quoted to or agreed with the Buyer.
9. Payment for the Goods shall be due against the Seller’s invoice and any amounts not paid
when due shall bear interest at 4% above the base rate for the time being adopted by the
Seller’s bankers. If the Seller has to instruct solicitors or other agents to recover money owed
by the Buyer then the Buyer will indemnify the Seller against all fees and costs payable by the
Seller to its solicitors or agents in connection with such recovery.
10. If provision is made for delivery of the Goods by instalments, such agreement shall be
construed to be severable as to each and every instalment deliverable hereunder and each
instalment shall be deemed to be sold under a separate and independent contract. Delay or
default in the delivery of any such instalment shall not affect the contract as it applies to any
other instalments and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing
shall not relieve the Buyer of its obligations to accept delivery of future instalments.
11. The Seller will comply with any warranty set out on the Order Confirmation relating to the
Goods or itself honour the terms of any express warranty given in respect of any item of the
Goods by the manufacturer of such item.
11.1 The undertaking given by the Seller in paragraph 11. of this condition is given in lieu of all
other conditions guarantees or warranties whatsoever, whether implied by statute or otherwise as
to the description or quality of the Goods or their fitness for any purpose or as to their
correspondence with sample. All liability of the Seller (other than liability arising from a failure
to perform the express terms of this Agreement or for personal injury or death resulting from the
Seller’s negligence) in connection with the supply of any of the goods pursuant to the Agreement
howsoever arising including (save as aforesaid) liability for negligence is hereby excluded.
12. If any of the goods comprised in any invoice issued by the Seller are not received by the
Buyer within 14 days after it has received such invoice, then the Buyer shall within such
period of 14 days give written notice to the Seller of such non-delivery. If no such notice is
given within such period all of the Goods comprised in such invoice shall be deemed for all
the purposes hereof to have been delivered to the Buyer.
12.1. If there is any discrepancy between any Goods delivered by the Seller and any Order
Confirmation, Invoice or Despatch note relating thereto then the Buyer shall give written
notice to the Seller of such discrepancy within 7 days after receipt of such Goods. If no
such notice is given within such period, the Goods delivered shall be deemed for all the
purposes hereof to comply in all respects with the particulars set out in such Despatch Note.
13. Except with the prior written consent of a duly authorised representative of the Seller,
neither these conditions nor any claim or right arising out of breach of these can be waived,
varied, suspended, added to or renounced. Failure by the Seller at any time to enforce any
of the provisions of the contract shall not be construed as a waiver by the Seller of such
provisions or in any way affect the validity of the contract or any part thereof.
14. In the event that as a result of any Act of God, Storm, Fire, Flood, Explosion, Strike
(whether at the Seller’s premises or elsewhere) shortage of materials or any other matter
which is beyond the Seller’s reasonable control or not within its reasonable contemplation
at the date of acceptance of the Buyer’s order the performance of the contract is made
materially more onerous or expensive for the Seller, the Seller may at any time by written
notice cancel the contract without liability to the Buyer.
15. All drawings, designs, patents, tools etc. and the copyright therein supplied by the Seller to
the Buyer shall be and remain the Seller’s property and in no circumstances whatsoever
shall such documents or their copyrights be used for any purpose other than that for which
they were supplied.
16. Any notice to be given by either party under any of these terms and conditions shall be
deemed to be properly given if posted in a properly stamped envelope addressed to or sent by
telex, fax or telegram or by hand to the other party at its last known address. Any such notice
shall be deemed to have been given when received provided that in the case of a notice sent by
post the party sending the notice may notify the other party by telex, fax or telegram of the
posting of such notice and in such case the notice will be deemed to have been given 24 hours
after posting. For the purposes hereof the “last known address” of the intended recipient as
shown on the last written communication from such recipient to the giver of such notice.
