Terms and Conditions

1. Ruling Conditions

All orders for goods are accepted by the Company upon these Conditions to the exclusion of any printed terms or condition of the Customer, which shall not form part of the contract. Acceptance of delivery of the goods from the Company shall be conclusive evidence before any court or arbiter that these Conditions apply to the sale of goods.

 

2. Definitions

a. Customer means the person whose order is accepted by the Company.

b. Company means Edge Lighting Services Limited.

c. Goods means the goods (including any installment of goods or any parts for them) which the Company is to supply in accordance with these conditions.

 

3. Quotations

Quotations issued by the Company are not offers capable of acceptance so as to make a binding contract unless and until confirmed in writing by the Company.

 

4. Credit Check

Acceptance of an order by the Company from any Customer shall be subject to the Company being satisfied as to the Customers credit references and that the customer has not exceeded his credit limit.

 

5. Specifications

While the Company will take all reasonable care to ensure that its goods comply in all material respects with any specification quoted in any sales literature published by it; all descriptions, specification, drawings and particulars in relation to weight, dimensions and performance of goods, issued by the Company, are approximate only and are intended only to present a general idea of the goods to which they refer. As such they shall not be relied upon as a basis for entering into any contract with the Company, nor do they form part of any contract between the Company and the Customer. The Company reserve the right to alter any of the specifications, for its goods, at any time without prior notice to the Customer and without any liability on the part of the Company.

 

6. WEEE Directive

WEE/JA0061TU. See waste disposal information in ‘About Us’ section.

 

7. Price & Payment

a. Prices quoted in the Company’s current price list from time to time are subject to alteration without prior notice and the Company reserves the right to invoice at the prices ruling at the date of delivery of the goods notwithstanding the fact that some other price may have been quoted to the Customer or specified in the Company’s price list.

b. All prices quoted to the Customer are based on the full quantities specified by the Customer and the Company reserves the right to revise prices in the event of any quantities being reduced for whatever cause.

c. Terms of payment are strictly nett, if not otherwise agreed separately in writing or marked on the front of the invoice. All prices are subject to the addition of Value Added Tax at the appropriate rate.

d. The Customer shall pay the agreed price of the goods to the Company by no later than the end of the month following the month in which the goods are invoiced to the Customer by the Company notwithstanding any claim (of whatever nature) which the Customer may have against the Company. Time of payment shall be of the essence of the contract between the Company and the Customer.

e. If the price of the goods is not paid in full to the Company within that period then (without prejudice to any of the Company’s other rights and remedies in respect of such breach);
i. the Company shall be entitled to recover the price of goods from the Customer by action, even though property in the goods has not yet passed to the Customer in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 10; become due and immediately payable in full.

f. The Company alone shall have the right to appropriate any payment made by the Customer to such of the Goods (or the goods supplied under any other contract between the Company and the Customer) as the Company may think fit (notwithstanding any purported appropriation by the Customer).

 

8. Delivery

a. All times and dates for delivery quoted by the Company are estimates only

b. While the Company will make every endeavour to meet such delivery times and dates the Company shall not in any event be liable to the Customer for the consequences of any delay in delivery howsoever arising and the Customer shall not be entitled to refuse to accept the goods because of late delivery.

c. Delivery of the Goods shall be made by the Customer collecting or procuring the collection (at the cost of the Customer) of the goods from the Company’s premises at any time after the Company has notified the Customer that the goods are ready for collection.

 

9. Force Majeure

Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 6 above, the Company reserves the right to suspend any deliveries which have not been made by virtue of any cause over which the Company has no control (including without limitation strike, lock-out, riot, civil commotion, fire, accident, explosion, tempest, Act of God, war, stoppage of transport, short supply of goods, or raw materials, or any other contingency whatsoever preventing the manufacture or delivery of the goods) and in any such case deliveries may at the option of the Company be cancelled, or, with the agreement of the Customer, made at the same rate of delivery commencing after the period of suspension, but the Company shall, in no way, be liable for any loss caused by such cancellation or postponement of delivery.

 

10. Risk

Risk in the goods shall pass to the Customer upon delivery. From the time of delivery until the time property in the goods passes to the Customer in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 10 the Customer shall insure the goods for their full value in a reputable insurance office for the benefit of the Company. Upon request the Customer will request the insurer to note the Company’s interest on the policy. The Customer shall hold the proceeds of any claim upon such insurance in respect of the goods on trust for the Company and shall account to the Company for them.

 

11. Possession of Goods

a. Not withstanding delivery and the passing of risk, property in the goods shall remain in the Company until the Company receives in cash or cleared funds payment in full of the price of the Goods and all other goods agreed to be sold by the Company to the Customer for which payment is then due.

b. Until property in the goods passes to the Customer, the Customer shall be the bailee of the goods for the Company and shall store the goods securely, safely, separately from the Customer’s own goods, or those of any other person and in a manner which makes them readily identifiable as the goods of the Company. The Company’s consent to the Customer’s possession of the goods and any right the Customer may have to the possession of the goods shall cease at whichever is the earliest of the following events:
i. If any sum (whether in respect of the goods or otherwise howsoever) is not paid to the Company by or on behalf of the Customer on or before the date when it is due;
ii. If the Customer, not being a Company, applies for an interim order or proposes a voluntary arrangement with the Customer’s creditors under Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 or does or fails to do anything which would entitle a petition for bankruptcy order to be presented;
iii. If the Customer, being a Company, does or fails to do anything which would entitle any person to appoint a receiver or the whole or any part of the Customer’s assets or which would entitle any person to present a petition for an Administration Order or the winding up of the Customer.

c. The Company may for the purpose of inspecting or recovering its goods enter upon any premises where they are stored or where the Company reasonably believes them to be stored.

d. While the Customer is in possession of the goods with the Company’s consent (but not otherwise), the Customer may re-sell the goods provided that such a sale is in the ordinary course of the Customer’s business and is at a price not less than the price paid or payable by the Customer to the Company for such goods.
i. As between the Customer and his sub-buyer, the Customer shall sell the goods as principal. The Customer has no right to and shall not commit the Company to any contractual relationship with or liability to the sub-buyer or any other person.
ii. As between the Company and the Customer, the Customer shall sell the goods as fiduciary agent for the Company. The Customer shall hold the proceeds of any such sale on trust for the Company and shall not mingle such proceeds with other monies or pay them into an overdrawn bank account. Notwithstanding any agreed period of credit for payment for the price of the goods (whether under paragraph 6 (d) or otherwise) the Customer shall pay the proceeds of such sales to the Company forthwith upon receipt.

 

11. Exclusion of Terms

Save as otherwise provided in these Conditions, the Company shall not be liable to the Customer in respect of any representation, warranty, undertaking or condition, whether express or implied by statute, trade custom or otherwise howsoever as to the life or wear of the goods supplied nor that they will be suitable for any particular use or purpose under any specific conditions whether or not that purpose or those conditions are known to the Company and in particular (but whether prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) the Company shall not be liable for any consequential loss or damage howsoever caused by or arising from goods supplied under these conditions
a. Nothing in these Conditions shall operate to exclude any implied term concerning the Company’s title to sell the goods or (where relevant) any liability on the part of the Company for personal injury to or the death of the Customer or any person arising from the negligence of the Company.
b. Nothing in these conditions affects the Customer’s statutory rights (if any).

 

12. Fitness for Purpose

Without prejudice to the provisions in paragraph 11 the Customer shall in determining the fitness for the purpose of goods supplied or to be supplied by the Company rely entirely on its own skill and judgement and not that of the Company.

 

13. Limit on Liability

a. Any liability incurred by the Company in respect of goods sold pursuant to these conditions howsoever arising shall be limited to replacing the goods or refunding the purchase price ( or a proportionate part thereof) or issuing a credit note for the amount in question as the Company may in its sole discretion consider appropriate.

b. Any replacement goods shall be as nearly as possible identical with the goods replaced and if not shall be at least of equal quality.

 

14. Claims for Damage, Defect, Loss or Non-Delivery

a. The Customer shall inspect the goods immediately upon delivery

b. The goods shall be deemed to have been delivered in accordance with the advice note undamaged, in good order, repair and condition without any shortage and to the Customer’s satisfaction unless the Company received written notice to the contrary as follows:
i. in the case of any defect or damage to the goods which would have been apparent of reasonable inspection by the customer or any shortage in delivery within 4 days of the date of delivery;
ii. in the case of non-delivery of any of the goods within 7 days of the date the Customer was notified the goods were due to be delivered;
iii. in any other case not mentioned in (i) or (ii) above within 3 months of the date of invoice.

c. In the event of the Company not receiving such written notice within the aforesaid time limits the Company shall be under no liability to the Customer whatsoever.

 

15. Instalments

The Company may deliver by instalments and each instalment shall be deemed to be sold under a separate contract and no failure of or delay of any instalment or any defect in the contents thereof shall entitle the customer to treat the contract as repudiated with regard to any remaining instalments or give the Customer grounds for delay in paying for goods already delivered.

 

16. Health & Safety

The Customer shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that the goods are used in accordance with the Company’s instructions and warnings relating to the safe and proper use of the goods.

 

17. Indemnity

To indemnify and keep indemnified the Company against all actions, proceedings, claims, demands, losses, costs, damages, liability and other expenses of any nature whatsoever whether direct or consequential in respect of any injury to or the death of any person or damage to any property moveable or immovable by reason of or arising in any way directly or indirectly out of:

a. the sum of the Goods whether in their own right or as an component part of parts in any product or products and whether by the Customer or any other person except to the extent that such actions, proceedings, claims, demands, damages, liabilities and other expenses arise as a result of the negligence of the Company or its employees occurring in the course of the manufacture of the Goods.

b. without prejudice to the generality of (a) above the manufacture of the product in accordance with designs and specification or out of materials prescribed by the Customer or as a result of the compliance by the Company with any other instructions given to the Company by the Customer.

 

18. Assignment

Rights and obligations under these Conditions are not to be assigned or transferred by the Company or the Customer without prior consent in writing of the other.

 

19. Waivers

The Company’s rights and remedies shall not be prejudiced by any indulgence or forbearance to the Customer and no waiver by the Company of any breach by the Customer shall operate as a waiver of any subsequent breach.

 

20. Severity

If any provision of these Conditions is held by any competent authority to be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part the validity of the other provisions of these Conditions and the remainder of the provision in question shall not be affected thereby.

 

21. Notices

Any notice required to be given hereunder shall be given in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given by the Company or the Customer if sent by first class pre-paid post or facsimile transmission, addressed to the other at its registered office address or such other address as one party shall have notified to the other purpose.

 

22. Variation

Any purported variation of these conditions will be void and of no effect unless agreed in writing by the Company and the Customer.

 

23. Governing Law

These conditions and any contract for the sale of goods between the Company and the Customer shall be governed by English Law and in relation to any dispute or difference in connection with these Conditions the Company and the Customer agree to submit to the non exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.