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STANDARD TRADING TERMS AND CONDITIONS


Part 1  - TERMS & CONDITIONS

 

1     General

The whole of the Agreement between Artique Designs Pty Ltd T/As Artique Designs (New Zealand) Company No 2342269 ("Artique") and the Applicant referred to in the Credit Application (“Customer”) are those set out in these Terms and Conditions as amended from time to time and those, if any, which are implied and which cannot be excluded by law (“Terms”). Any other contractual terms of the Customer (whether upon the Customer’s order or elsewhere) which are contrary to or inconsistent with these Terms shall not apply nor shall they constitute a counter-offer. By receiving delivery and/or supply of all or a portion of the goods, materials and/or parts and/or labour and/or services supplied by Artique under these Terms ("Goods"), the Customer shall be deemed to have accepted these Terms and to have agreed that they shall apply to the exclusion of all others.

2     Credit Terms

2.1     Payment is due on or prior to thirty (30) days from the date of statement rendered in respect of the supply of the Goods unless otherwise stated in writing by Artique. Artique may charge interest at a rate equivalent to two percent (2%) in excess of the rate of interest carried by court judgments made by the New Zealand courts.

2.2     Any payments received from the customer by way of credit card will be subject to a credit card surcharge fee in force at the date of payment.

2.3     Artique express or implied approval for extending credit to the Customer may be revoked or withdrawn by Artique at any time.

2.4     Artique is entitled to set-off against any money owing to the Customer accounts owed to Artique by the Customer on any account whatsoever.

2.5     Any payments received from the Customer on overdue accounts will be applied first to satisfy interest which may have accrued, second to reasonable expenses and legal costs referred to in Clause 2.5, and then to principal.

2.6     The Customer is liable for all reasonable expenses (including contingent expenses such as debt collection commission) and legal costs (on a full indemnity basis) incurred by Artique for enforcement of obligations and recovery of monies due from the Customer to Artique.

3     Quotations and Pricing

3.1     Prices charged for Goods will be according to a current quotation for those Goods. Otherwise, they will be determined by Artique by reference to its standard prices in effect at the date of delivery (whether notified to the Customer or not and regardless of any prices contained in the order). Artique will use its best endeavours to notify the Customer of price changes but bears no liability in respect of this.

3.2     Any quotation by Artique shall not constitute an offer. Quotations will remain valid for seven (7) days from the date of the quotation.

3.3     Any quotation, acceptance of quotation, purchase order or other document which requires signature may be signed in electronic form, and such signature shall be binding upon the person affixing that signature.

3.4     Unless otherwise specified by Artique, the prices exclude:-

3.4.1     Any statutory tax, including any GST, duty or impost levied in respect of the Goods and which has not been allowed for by Artique in calculating the price.

3.4.2     Costs and charges in relation to insurance, packing (other than the standard packing of Artique), crating, delivery (whether by road, rail, ship or air) and export of the Goods.

4     Delivery and Supply

4.1     Any times quoted for delivery and/or supply are estimates only and Artique shall not be liable for failure to deliver/supply, or for delay in delivery/supply. The Customer shall not be relieved of any obligation to accept or pay for Goods, by reason of any delay in delivery/supply or dispatch. Artique reserves the right to stop supply at any time if the Customer fails to comply with the Terms.

4.2     Artique may refuse to supply any order by the Customer for Goods in its absolute discretion and may make acceptance of an order conditional upon it receiving a satisfactory credit assessment of the Customer.

4.3     If the Customer directs that delivery of the Goods be staggered over different times or to different addresses from those specified in the Credit Application, then the Customer:-

4.3.1     shall be liable for any additional cost, charge and expense incurred by Artique in complying with the Customer's direction; and

4.3.2     shall pay for the whole of the invoiced value of the Goods notwithstanding the staggered deliveries.

4.3.3     Such action shall be deemed to be delivery to the Customer.

4.4     The Customer is deemed to accept delivery of the Goods where it is either delivered to the Customer's premises or when Artique notifies the Customer that the Goods are available for collection.

4.5     If the Customer is unable or fails to accept delivery of the Goods, Artique may deliver it to a place of storage nominated by the Customer and, failing such nomination, to a place determined by Artique. Such action shall be deemed to be delivery to the Customer. The Customer shall be liable for all cost, charge and expense incurred by Artique on account of storage, detention, double cartage/delivery or similar causes.

5     Property

5.1     Until full payment has been made for all Goods, and any other sums in any way outstanding from the Customer to Artique from time to time:-

5.1.1     All sums outstanding become immediately due and payable by the Customer to Artique if the Customer makes default in paying any other sums due to Artique, becomes bankrupt, or commits any act of bankruptcy, compounds with its creditors, has judgment entered against it in any court or, being a company, has a provisional liquidator, liquidator, receiver, receiver manager or administrator appointed, notwithstanding the provisions of any other clause in these Terms.

5.1.2     The property in the Goods shall not pass to the Customer and the Customer shall hold the Goods as bailee for Artique (returning the same to Artique on request). The Goods shall nevertheless be at the risk of the Customer from the time of delivery/supply and the Customer must insure the Goods from the time of delivery/supply.

5.1.3     The Customer is only authorised to sell the Goods (or any portion of them) to third parties as the fiduciary agent of Artique provided that there shall be no right to bind Artique to any liability to such third party by contract or otherwise. All payments (direct or indirect) received from such third parties by the Customer for the Goods (or any portion of them) shall be held on trust for Artique pursuant to the fiduciary relationship.

5.1.4     In the event that the Customer incorporates or transforms the Goods (or any portion of them) into any other goods or products produced by the Customer (or a third party), then the Customer must hold a proportion of any payment ("relevant proportion") received by the Customer for such goods or products on trust for Artique. The Customer expressly acknowledges that the relevant proportion shall be equal to the dollar value of the Goods incorporated or transformed and the Customer further acknowledges that any part payment (not exceeding the relevant proportion) received by the Customer for such goods or products is received as payment first of the relevant proportion.

5.1.5     Artique is irrevocably authorised to enter any premises where the Goods are kept, and to use the name of the Customer and to act on its behalf, if necessary, to recover possession of the Goods without liability for trespass or any resulting damage.

5.2     In addition to any lien to which Artique may, by statute or otherwise, be entitled, Artique shall in the event of the Customer's insolvency, bankruptcy or winding up, be entitled to a general lien over all property or goods belonging to the Customer in Artique's possession (although all or some of such property or goods may have been paid) for the unpaid price of any Goods sold or delivered to the Customer under this or any other contract.

6     Availability of Stock

Any order that cannot be fulfilled on its receipt will automatically be back ordered and processed when stock becomes available unless it is the Customer's stated standard policy not to accept back orders or the Customer specifically marks its order, "Do Not Back Order". Deliveries at any time are subject to availability of stock and Artique will not be liable for any charges due to product unavailability.

7     Freight

Unless otherwise agreed, Artique will ship by its nominated carrier.

8     Returns, Cancellations and Claims

8.1     The Customer shall not return any Goods to Artique without obtaining prior authorisation from Artique. No returns will be accepted unless a copy of the relevant invoice is enclosed with the returned Goods. A list of the Goods returned including product descriptions, quantity, date of return and the Customer's name and address must also be enclosed. Freight charges must be paid by the Customer and the Goods returned through Artique's approved carrier. All Goods must be returned in the original packaging and the Customer shall be responsible for all damage incurred during return shipment. A credit note will be issued by Artique only after Goods returned are either collected by Artique's authorised representative or agent or returned to it by the Customer as set out above. The Customer shall not deduct the amount of any anticipated credit from any payment due to Artique but must await receipt of a credit note.

8.2     All goods returned must be of merchantable and reasonable quality such that the goods are complete in their original packaging, not shop-soiled, are not price ticketed and are still listed in the current price list.

8.3     If Artique accepts the return of any Goods that have been ordered, Artique may charge the Customer fifteen per cent (15%) of the invoice price as a handling fee with freight costs and risk remaining the responsibility of the Customer.

8.4     No cancellations or partial cancellation of an order by the Customer shall be accepted by Artique unless it has first consented in writing to such cancellation or partial cancellation and unless a cancellation charge has been paid which, as determined by Artique, will indemnify Artique against all loss, without limitation. Cancellation will not be accepted on goods that are not regular stock which are in the process of manufacture or ready for shipment.

8.5     All complaints, claims, or notification of lost Goods, incomplete Goods, Goods damaged in transit or Goods that do not comply with the Customer’s purchase order must be submitted by the Customer to Artique in writing within seven (7) business days of the date of the invoice rendered for the supply of the Goods. Otherwise, the Customer shall be deemed to have accepted the Goods and shall not refuse to pay for the Goods on the basis that they were lost, incomplete, damaged in transit, or do not comply with the Customer’s purchase order.

9     Privacy Act 1988 (“Privacy Act”)

To enable Artique to assess the Customer’s application for credit, the Customer authorises Artique:-

9.1     To obtain from a credit reporting agency a consumer or commercial credit report containing personal information about the Customer and its guarantors; and

9.2     To obtain a report from a credit reporting agency and other information in relation to the Customer’s commercial credit activities, and

9.3     To give to a credit reporting agency information including identity particulars and application details

AND the Customer authorises Artique to give to and obtain from any credit provider named in the accompanying credit application and credit providers that may be named in a credit report issued by a credit reporting agency information about the Customer’s credit arrangements. The Customer understands that this information can include any information about its credit worthiness, credit standing, credit history or credit capacity that credit providers are allowed to give or receive from each other .

The Customer understands that information can be used for the purposes of assessing its application for credit, assisting it to avoid defaulting on its credit obligations, assessing its credit worthiness and notifying other credit providers and credit reporting agencies of a default by it under these Terms.

10   Notification

The Customer must notify Artique in writing within seven (7) days of:-

10.1   Any alteration of the name or ownership of the Customer.

10.2   The issue of any legal proceedings against the Customer.

10.3   The appointment of any provisional liquidator, liquidator, receiver, receiver manager or administrator to the Customer.

10.4   Any change in the ownership of the business name of the Customer. The Customer agrees that it shall be liable to Artique for all Goods supplied to the new owner by Artique until notice of any such change is received.

11   Warranties

11.1   No warranties except those implied and that by law cannot be excluded are given by Artique in respect of Goods supplied. Where it is lawful to do so, the liability of Artique for a breach of a condition or warranty is limited to the repair or replacement of the Goods, the supply of equivalent Goods, the payment of the cost of repairing or replacing the Goods or acquiring equivalent Goods, as determined by Artique.

11.2   The Customer warrants to Artique that it is purchasing Goods as the principal and not as an agent.

12   Force Majeure

Artique shall be released from its obligations in the event of national emergency, war, prohibitive governmental regulation or if any other cause beyond the control of the parties renders provision of the Goods impossible, where all money due to Artique shall be paid immediately and, unless prohibited by law, Artique may elect to terminate the Agreement.

13   Equitable Charge

The Customer as beneficial owner and/or registered proprietor now charges in favour of Artique all of the Customer's estate and interest in any real property (including but not limited to any applicable land  owned by the Customer named or described as the Customer's Street Address in the Credit Application if applicable) ("Land") to secure payment of accounts rendered by Artique to the Customer for the delivery and/or supply of the Goods including interest payable on these accounts and costs (including legal costs on a full indemnity basis) incurred by Artique and including the costs to prepare and lodge a Caveat against the Land and to remove the Caveat.

14   Failure to Act

Artique's failure to enforce or insist upon the timely performance of any term, condition, covenant or provision in these Terms, or Artique's failure to exercise any right or remedy available under these Terms or at law, or Artique's failure to insist upon timely payment of monies when due or to demand payment of any charges or fees which accrue or any extension of creditor forbearance under these Terms shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of Artique's right to demand timely payment of future obligations or strict compliance with the Terms.

15   Legal Construction

15.1   These Terms shall be governed by and interpreted according to the laws of New Zealand and the Customer consent and submit to the jurisdiction of the Courts of New Zealand

15.2   Notwithstanding that any provision of the Terms may prove to be illegal or unenforceable pursuant to any statute or rule of law or for any other reason that provision is deemed omitted without affecting the legality of the remaining provisions and the remaining provisions of the Terms shall continue in full force and effect.

  

 

Part 2 - Standard Trading Terms 

Payment Terms
Payment terms are 30 days from statement

Minimum Orders
Orders must meet a minimum order of $300.00 (ex GST)

Freight
A subsidised freight amount is charged on all invoices.

Retention of Title
Title to the goods shall not pass to the purchaser until the full amount due for the goods has been paid and there is
no money owing by the purchaser to Artique Designs for any other goods delivered by Artique Designs or any other
account what so ever.

Stock Return
Any stock returned will only be accepted if authorization has been given by head office and received from our
nominated carrier. A handling charge may apply to the returned goods.

Goods Claims
Claims for damages and short deliveries must be made within 7 days of receipt of goods, after this time our refusal
may offend.

Overdue Accounts
Goods will not be supplied to overdue accounts until such time as the account is brought up to date. Where this
occurs, normal trading terms shall be re-established, and any orders being held shall be treated as being received
on the day of payment. It will therefore lose its priority in stock allocations.

Cost Clause
Should your account exceed our trading terms and be passed for collection all costs including the debt, collection
commission and solicitors fees and any out of pocket expense will be the liability of the customer.
Any queries you may have regarding our trading terms can be directed to Accounts Receivable.