The following terms and conditions (“the Conditions”) are the terms on which Shropshire Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise Limited (“the Company”) sells to other businesses and supersede all other terms and conditions used by the Company.
1. Orders, price and payment
1.1 No contract shall come into existence until the Company confirms the order for Membership, Goods or Services in writing (“the Services”).
1.2 The price (exclusive of VAT) for the Services (“the Price”) shall be the quoted price of the Company and payment of the Price shall be made by the Buyer in accordance with the invoice instructions or payment schedule which shall become the due date (“the Due Date”) of the payment for the Services and time for payment shall be of the essence.
1.3 The Company reserves the right to amend its Services and Price from time to time without notice.
1.4 If the Price is not paid by the Due Date the Buyer will be liable to an additional payment of reasonable liquidated damages. Interest shall accrue both before and after any court judgment on the unpaid portion of the Price at the rate of three per cent above the base rate from time to time of HSBC UK Bank plc.
1.5 Any cancellation of any order by the Buyer must be in writing and agreed as cancelled also in writing by the Company. In case of any cancellation, the Buyer may be released from its obligations under the contract after payment of a sum for reasonable liquidated damages.
1.6 The Buyer agrees to pay the Price of the annual membership fee (“Subscription”) to the Company as set out in 1.2 and annually thereafter at renewal.
1.7 The Company may agree for the Buyer to spread the cost of the annual Subscription over 12 equal instalments and the Company reserves the right to impose an additional charge for the administration of this facility without notice.
1.8 The Company reserves the right to impose on the Buyer a processing charge which shall represent the cost of administrating for each failed or cancelled direct debit payment and may opt to withdraw the direct debit payment facility from the Buyer without notice wherein the remainder of the annual Subscription shall be due in full.
1.9 Termination of the annual Subscription may be requested by the Buyer by providing the Company with notice of cancellation in writing of not less than three months (90 days) before the day that the next Subscription may be due and unless such notice of intention is given, any Subscription for the subsequent year is payable in full. The Buyer will not be entitled to any refund, either in part or in full, of any Subscription paid.
2. Membership, Goods & Services
The description and quantity of the Services to be sold shall be as set out in the quotation provided by the
Company to the Buyer (“the Quotation”).
3. Delivery of Services
The Company shall provide access to the Services to the Buyer on the date as both are shown on the Quotation and time shall be of the essence. In the case of the annual Subscription the Buyer will not have access to the Services until such time as payment has been received by the Company.
4. Acceptance
The Company must be advised in writing by recorded delivery of any defects in the Services as soon as they are discovered by the Buyer who shall be deemed to have accepted the Services if they have not been rejected on or before the seventh day after provision of the Services. The Buyer shall not be entitled to reject the Services in whole or in part thereafter.
5. Title and Risk
The Goods shall be at the risk of the Buyer following delivery and, notwithstanding delivery, title in the Goods shall not pass to the Buyer until the Buyer has made payment of all sums owing to the Company failing which the Company shall have the right to repossess or otherwise recover the Goods. Until title passes the Buyer shall hold the Goods as bailee for the Company and shall store or mark them so that they can at all times be identified as the Goods of the Company.
6. Limitation of liability
6.1 Save in respect of personal injury or death due to any negligence, the Company shall not be liable to the Buyer in respect of any loss suffered by the Buyer due to any defect in the Services.
6.2 Without prejudice to Condition 6.1 the Company shall not be liable to the Buyer or any third party for any loss of profit, consequential or other economic loss suffered by the Buyer arising in any way from this Agreement.
7. Set off and counterclaim
The buyer may not withhold payment of any invoice or other amount due to the Company by reason of any
right of set-off or counterclaim which the buyer may have or allege to have or for any reason whatsoever.
8. Force majeure
The Company shall not be liable for any default due to any circumstance beyond the reasonable control of the Company including, but not limited to, Acts of God, war, civil unrest, riot, strike, lock-out, acts of civil or military authorities, fire, flood, earthquake or shortage of supply.
9. General
9.1 If any term or provision of these Conditions is held invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason by any Court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be severed and the remainder of the provisions hereof shall continue in full force and effect as if these Conditions had been agreed with the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision eliminated.
9.2 The Company may without the consent of the Buyer sub-licence its rights or obligations or any part of these Conditions.
9.3 The headings in these Conditions are for ease of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of any of the Conditions.
10. Contract
Notwithstanding any other provision of this agreement, nothing herein shall confer or is intended to confer a benefit on any third party for the purpose of the Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or for any other purpose.
11. Entire agreement
Each of the parties agrees that save in respect of statements made fraudulently it shall have no remedy in respect of any untrue statement upon which it relied in entering this Agreement and that its only remedies shall be for breach of contract.
12. Governing law and jurisdiction
The laws of England and Wales shall govern this Agreement and the parties hereby submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
