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VISIONARY OFFICE CONCEPTS ("VOC") does business with its Buyers under the terms and conditions set forth herein. VOC hereby rejects any terms and conditions contained in any Buyer purchase order or other business forms or in correspondence or elsewhere or implied by trade, custom, practice or course of dealing unless specifically included or varied in writing by a director or other authorised representative of VOC which are different from or in addition to the terms stated herein.

"Buyer" means the person or company whose order for the goods or services is accepted by VOC.

"Goods" means the goods (including any installment of the goods or any parts of them) or other related services which VOC is to supply in accordance with these conditions. Any reference in these terms and conditions to singular includes plural.

1. Acceptance of Orders

All orders are subject to the approval of VOC.

2. General Terms of Payment and Financial Requirements

A. Terms are NETT 30 DAYS from date of invoice for Buyers to whom VOC extends credit, except where otherwise agreed in writing by VOC. Time of payment shall be of the essence for all contracts between VOC and Buyer to which these Terms and Conditions apply.

B. A LATE PAYMENT INTEREST CHARGE OF 2.5% PER CALANDER MONTH WILL BE IMPOSED ON ANY ACCOUNT NOT PAID WITHIN TERMS STATED ON INVOICE, SUCH INTEREST BEING DEEMED TO ACCRUE ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS FROM THE DUE DATE FOR PAYMENT IN FULL. However, if this rate exceeds the maximum rate permitted under applicable law or regulations, the charge shall be reduced to the maximum allowable rate.

C. All overdue accounts will be passed to our debt collection agent with AN ADDITIONAL 15% added to the invoice amount.

D. VOC may offer special payment and/or shipment terms. In such event, these special terms shall supersede the general terms of payment and/or shipment, provided that such special terms are fully stated in a VOC INVOICE, signed by an authorised representative and such invoice is accepted by VOC.

E. VOC reserves the right to suspend delivery to Buyer where any invoice due has not been paid within 60 days.

F. If the Buyer shall default in payment on the due date or if any event specified in clause 2(G) shall occur, VOC shall be entitled to repossess the goods and the Buyer shall grant VOC an irrevocable license to enter upon any land or premises where goods are situated for the time being to recover the goods. This right shall continue to subsist notwithstanding the termination of the contract for any reason and is without prejudice to any other rights of VOC.

G. If Buyer shall commit any material breach of its obligations hereunder or shall commit an act of bankruptcy or (being a corporation) shall go into liquidation other than for the purpose of reconstruction or amalgamation or shall suffer the appointment of a receiver of any of his or its property or make any deed or composition for the benefit of any of his or its creditors, or if in the opinion of VOC, Buyer's credit becomes impaired, VOC shall have the following rights and remedies in addition to any other rights and remedies provided by applicable law:

i. All sums shall become immediately due and payable, notwithstanding any credit terms previously in effect.

ii. VOC may refuse any order placed by Buyer.

iii. VOC may cancel any accepted orders or delay shipment of any order.

iv. No order may be cancelled by Buyer without VOC's consent in writing and such cancellation will be subject to a charge of 50% of order value or 25% if the product can be reused.

v. If credit previously has been extended by VOC to Buyer, and VOC elects to make further sales to Buyer, VOC may require payments on a C.O.D. or cash-in-advance basis.

vi. In the event collection of sums due from Buyer to VOC is referred to lawyers or debt recovery agents or if proceedings are brought to collect such sums or to enforce the rights of VOC, Buyer agrees to pay all costs and reasonable fees, including such costs and fees incurred in any proceedings or appeal and in executing on any judgement. VOC reserves the right to payment of all costs charged and expenses incurred by it or its agents in the collection of monies due from the Buyer in addition to the price and interest thereon.

3. Price Changes

A. VOC shall have the right to reduce, or to increase prices to Buyer at any time without prior notice, except with respect to orders which have been accepted prior to such price modification.

B. VOC may at any time add, change or cease making available any goods without notice to Buyer, and Buyer shall have no claim against VOC for failure to furnish goods of the type previously sold.

C. VOC may at any time change warranty without incurring any liability to Buyer.

4. Taxes

Prices stated do not include VAT and any other tax or duties payable by VOC, which will be added to invoice wherever applicable.

5. General Terms of Transport

A. Delivery to UK mainland address will be to ground floor entrance only. The Buyer shall provide free assistance in unloading the delivery unless VOC has previously agreed otherwise in writing. Delivery shall be deemed complete on acceptance at ground floor entrance and risk shall pass on delivery to Buyer.

B. Delay in transport or delivery of any particular installment or delivery of faulty goods in any one installment shall not entitle the Buyer to repudiate the whole contract nor relieve the Buyer of his obligation to accept and pay for the remaining installments.

C. VOC shall endeavour to make deliveries within a reasonable time; HOWEVER, VOC shall not be liable to Buyer for any damages, whether incidental, consequential or otherwise, for failure to fill orders, delays in delivery or any error in the filling of orders.

D. Time of delivery shall not be of the essence to any contract to which these Terms and Conditions apply and shall not be made so by the service of any notice.

E. Claims for damage will only be accepted if received in writing within 3 days of date of delivery

F. In the event of the Buyer refusing to accept delivery of goods in accordance with the estimated delivery date indicated on the relevant Purchase Order Acknowledgement, VOC reserves the right to store the goods at VOC's premises or elsewhere at the Buyer's risk, and to charge all the costs of storage and additional transport to the Buyer.

6 Ownership of and property

Ownership of and property in the goods shall remain vested in VOC until the Buyer has paid all the monies owed by it to VOC under this or any other contract for similar goods. The Buyer shall be entitled to sell the goods for its own account in the normal course of its business provided that the proceeds of sale of the goods to the extent of any monies due by the Buyer to VOC are held by the Buyer in trust for VOC until payment of all monies has been made in full to VOC.

7 Force Majeure

VOC shall not be liable to Buyer for any loss or damage which may be suffered by Buyer as a direct or indirect result of the supply of goods by VOC being prevented, hindered, delayed, cancelled or rendered uneconomic by reason of circumstances or events beyond VOC's reasonable control ("force majeure circumstances") including but not limited to strikes, lock-outs, labour disputes, act of God, war, riot, civil commotion, malicious damage, compliance with any law or government order, rule, regulation or direction, accident, breakdown of plant or machinery, fire, flood, storm, difficulty or increased expense in obtaining workers, material or transport other circumstances affecting the supply of goods or of raw materials by VOC's normal source of supply or the delivery of goods by VOC's normal route or means of delivery.

8 LIEN

VOC shall be entitled to a general lien on any goods and property owned by Buyer in VOC's possession (although the Buyer may have paid for the same in full) in satisfaction of the whole or part as the case may be of the unpaid price of any goods sold and delivered to Buyer under any contract. VOC shall be entitled to offset any sum or sums owing by it to Buyer against any sums owed by Buyer to VOC.

9 Severability

If any of these Terms and Conditions is held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, whether in whole or in part, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not prejudice the effectiveness of the rest of the Terms and Conditions.

10. Assignment

VOC is entitled to assign, sub-contract or sub-let any contract.

11. Directors Guarantee

Any amount owed to VOC that remains unpaid by a limited company will be the joint and several responsibility of the Directors of the company.

12. The Contract

The contract shall be governed by English law. The only tribunals with authority to determine any dispute arising directly or indirectly from the contract shall be the Courts of England.

 

 

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