Terms of Trade
1. Definitions
1.1 "Seller" shall mean Futureweb Unit Trust T/A Futureweb
Pty Ltd and its successors and assigns.
1.2 "Customer" shall mean the Customer or any person acting
on behalf of and with the authority of the Customer.
1.3 "Guarantor" means that person (or persons), or entity
who agrees herein to be liable for the debts of the Customer on
a principal debtor basis.
1.4 "Services" shall mean all services supplied by the
Seller to the Customer and includes any advice or recommendations
(and where the context so permits shall include any supply of Goods
as hereinafter defined).
1.5 "Goods" shall mean Goods supplied by the Seller to
the Buyer.
1.6 "Price" shall mean the cost of the Services as agreed
between the Seller and the Customer subject to clause 4 of this
contract.
2.
Acceptance
2.1 Any instructions received by the Seller from the Customer for
the supply of Services and/or the Customer's acceptance of Services
supplied by the Seller shall constitute acceptance of the terms
and conditions contained herein.
2.2 Where more than one Customer has entered into this agreement,
the Customer's shall be jointly and severally liable for all payments
of the Price.
2.3 Upon acceptance of these terms and conditions by the Customer
the terms and conditions are irrevocable and can only be rescinded
in accordance with these terms and conditions or with the written
consent of the manager of the Seller.
2.4 None of the Seller's agents or representatives are authorised
to make any representations, statements, conditions or agreements
not expressed by a Company Director in writing nor is the Seller
bound by any such unauthorised statements.
2.5 The Customer undertakes to give the Seller not less than fourteen
(14) days prior written notice of any proposed change to the Services
supplied (including termination), Customer's name and/or any other
change in the Customer's details (including but not limited to,
changes in the Customer's address, facsimile number, or business
practice).
3.
Goods and Services
3.1 The Goods and Services are as described on the invoices, quotation,
work authorisation or any other work commencement forms as provided
by the Seller to the Customer.
4.
Price And Payment
4.1 At the Seller's sole discretion the Price shall be either;
(a) as indicated on invoices provided by the Seller to the Customer
in respect of Services supplied; or
(b) be the Seller's quoted Price which shall be binding upon the
Seller provided that the Customer shall accept in writing the Seller's
quotation within thirty (30) days.
4.2 Time for payment for the Services shall be of the essence and
will be stated on the invoice, quotation or any other order forms.
If no time is stated then payment shall be on delivery of the Services.
4.3 At the Sellers sole discretion, for certain approved Customers
payment will be due fourteen (14) days following the date of the
invoice.
4.4 Payment will be made by cash on delivery, or by cheque, or by
bank cheque, or by credit card, or by direct credit, or by any other
method as agreed to between the Customer and the Seller.
4.5 The Price shall be increased by the amount of any GST and other
taxes and duties which may be applicable, except to the extent that
such taxes are expressly included in any quotation given by the
Seller.
5.
Delivery Of Goods / Services
5.1 Delivery of the Services shall be made to the Customer's address.
The Customer shall make all arrangements necessary to take delivery
of the Services whenever they are tendered for delivery, or delivery
of the Services shall be made to the Customer at the Seller's address.
5.2 Delivery of the Services to a carrier, either named by the Customer
or failing such naming to a carrier at the discretion of the Seller
for the purpose of transmission to the Customer, is deemed to be
a delivery of the Services to the Customer.
5.3 The costs of carriage and any insurance which the Customer reasonably
directs the Seller to incur shall be reimbursed by the Customer
(without any set-off or other withholding whatever) and shall be
due on the date for payment of the Price. The carrier shall be deemed
to be the Customer's agent.
5.4 The Seller may deliver the Services by separate instalments
(in accordance with the agreed delivery schedule). Each separate
instalment shall be invoiced and paid for in accordance with the
provisions in this contract of sale.
5.5 Delivery of the Services to a third party nominated by the Customer
is deemed to be delivery to the Customer for the purposes of this
agreement.
5.6 The failure of the Seller to deliver shall not entitle either
party to treat this contract as repudiated.
5.7 The Seller shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatever
due to failure by the Seller to deliver the Services (or any of
them) promptly or at all.
6.
Risk
6.1 If the Seller retains property in the Services nonetheless,
all risk for the Services passes to the Customer on delivery.
7.
Errors and Omissions
7.1 The Customer shall inspect the Services on delivery and shall
within forty-eight (48) hours of delivery notify the Seller of any
alleged defect, shortage in quantity, errors, omissions or failure
to comply with the description or quote. The Customer shall afford
the Seller an opportunity to inspect the Services within a reasonable
time following delivery if the Customer believes the Services are
defective in any way. If the Customer shall fail to comply with
these provisions, the Services shall be conclusively presumed to
be in accordance with the terms and conditions and free from any
defect or damage.
7.2 For defective Services, which the Seller has agreed in writing
that the Customer is entitled to reject, the Seller's liability
is limited to either (at the Seller's discretion) replacing the
Services or repairing the Services provided that the Customer has
complied with the provisions of clause 7.1.
8.
Customer's Disclaimer
8.1 The Customer hereby disclaims any right to rescind, or cancel
the contract or to sue for damages or to claim restitution arising
out of any misrepresentation made to him by any servant or agent
of the Seller and the Customer acknowledges that he buys the Services
relying solely upon his own skill and judgement.
9.
The Commonwealth Trade Practices Act 1974 and Fair Trading Acts
9.1 Nothing in this agreement is intended to have the effect of
contracting out of any applicable provisions of the Commonwealth
Trade Practices Act 1974 or the Fair Trading Acts in each of the
States and Territories of Australia, except to the extent permitted
by those Acts where applicable.
10.
Privacy Act 1988
10.1 The Customer and/or the Guarantor/s agree for the Seller to
obtain from a credit-reporting agency a credit report containing
personal credit information about the Customer and Guarantor/s in
relation to credit provided by the Seller.
10.2 The Customer and/or the Guarantor/s agree that the Seller may
exchange information about Customer and Guarantor/s with those credit
providers named in the Application for Credit account or named in
a consumer credit report issued by a reporting agency for the following
purposes:
(a) To assess an application by Customer;
(b) To notify other credit providers of a default by the Customer;
(c) To exchange information with other credit providers as to the
status of this credit account, where the Customer is in default
with other credit providers; and
(d) To assess the credit worthiness of Customer and/or Guarantor/s.
10.3 The Customer consents to the Seller being given a consumer
credit report to collect overdue payment on commercial credit (Section
18K(1)(h) Privacy Act 1988).
10.4 The Customer agrees that Personal Data provided may be used
and retained by the Seller for the following purposes and for other
purposes as shall be agreed between the Customer and Seller or required
by law from time to time:
(a) provision of Services;
(b) marketing of Services by the Seller, its agents or distributors
in relation to the Services;
(c) analysing, verifying and/or checking the Customer's credit,
payment and/or status in relation to provision of Services;
(d) processing of any payment instructions, direct debit facilities
and/or credit facilities requested by Customer; and
(e) enabling the daily operation of Customer's account and/or the
collection of amounts outstanding in the Customer's account in relation
to the Services.
10.5
The Seller may give, information about the Customer to a credit
reporting agency for the following purposes:
(a) to obtain a consumer credit report about the Customer; and or
(b) allow the credit reporting agency to create or maintain a credit
information file containing information about the Customer.
11.
Default & Consequences Of Default
11.1 Interest on overdue invoices shall accrue from the date when
payment becomes due daily until the date of payment at a rate of
2.5% compounding per calendar month and shall accrue at such a rate
after as well as before any judgement.
11.2 If the Customer defaults in payment of any invoice when due,
the Customer shall indemnify the Seller from and against all the
Seller's costs and disbursements including on a solicitor and own
client basis and in addition all of the Seller's nominees costs
of collection.
11.3 Without prejudice to any other remedies the Seller may have,
if at any time the Customer is in breach of any obligation (including
those relating to payment), the Seller may suspend or terminate
the supply of Services to the Customer and any of its other obligations
under the terms and conditions. The Seller will not be liable to
the Customer for any loss or damage the Customer suffers because
the Seller exercised its rights under this clause.
11.4 If any account remains unpaid at the end of the second month
after supply of the Services an immediate amount of the greater
of $20.00 or 10.00% of the amount overdue shall be levied for administration
fees which sum shall become immediately due and payable.
11.5 In the event that:
(a) any money payable to the Seller becomes overdue, or in the Seller's
opinion the Customer will be unable to meet its payments as they
fall due; or
(b) the Customer becomes insolvent, convenes a meeting with its
creditors or proposes or enters into an arrangement with creditors,
or makes an assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or
(c) a receiver, manager, liquidator (provisional or otherwise) or
similar person is appointed in respect of the Customer or any asset
of the Customer;
then without prejudice to the Seller's other remedies at law
(i) the Seller shall be entitled to cancel all or any part of any
order of the Customer which remains unperformed in addition to and
without prejudice to any other remedies; and
(ii) all amounts owing to the Seller shall, whether or not due for
payment, immediately become payable in additional to the interest
payable under clause 11.1 hereof.
12.
Title
12.1 It is the intention of the seller and agreed by the Customer
that property in the Services shall not pass until the Customer
has paid all amounts owing for the particular Services.
12.2 It is further agreed that:
(a) Until such time as ownership of the Services shall pass from
the Seller to the Customer the Seller may give notice in writing
to the Customer to return the Services or any of them to the Seller.
Upon such notice the rights of the Customer to obtain ownership
or any other interest in the Services shall cease.
(b) If the Customer fails to return the Services to the Seller then
the Seller or the Seller's agent may enter upon and into land and
premises owned, occupied or used by the Customer, or any premises
as the invitee of the Customer, where the Services are situated
and take possession of the Services, without being responsible for
any damage thereby caused.
(c) Receipt by the Seller of any form of payment other than cash
shall not be deemed to be payment until that form of payment has
been honoured, cleared or recognised and until then the Seller's
ownership of rights in respect of the Services shall continue.
(d) The Seller may require payment of the Price or the balance of
the Price due together with any other amounts due from the Customer
to the Seller arising out of these terms and conditions, and the
Seller may take any lawful steps to require payment of the amounts
due and the Price.
(e) The Seller can issue proceedings to recover the Price of the
Services sold notwithstanding that ownership of the Services may
not have passed to the Customer.
13.
Security And Charge
13.1 Despite anything to the contrary contained herein or any other
rights which the Seller may have howsoever:
(a) Where the Customer and/or the Guarantor (if any) is the owner
of land, realty or any other asset capable of being charged, both
the Customer and/or the Guarantor agree to mortgage and/or charge
all
of their joint and/or several interest in the said land, realty
or any other asset to the Seller or the Seller's nominee to secure
all amounts and other monetary obligations payable under the terms
and conditions. The Customer and/or the Guarantor acknowledge and
agree that the Seller (or the Seller's nominee) shall be entitled
to lodge where appropriate a caveat, which caveat shall be released
once all payments and other monetary obligations payable hereunder
have been met.
(b) Should the Seller elect to proceed in any manner in accordance
with this clause and/or its sub-clauses, the Customer and/or Guarantor
shall indemnify the seller from and against all the Seller's costs
and disbursements including legal costs on a solicitor and own client
basis.
(c) To give effect to the provisions of clause [13.1 (a) and (b)]
inclusive hereof the Customer and/or the Guarantor (if any) do hereby
irrevocably nominate constitute and appoint the Seller or the Seller's
nominee as the Customer's and/or Guarantor's true and lawful attorney
to execute mortgages and charges (whether registerable or not) including
such other terms and conditions as the Seller and/or the Seller's
nominee shall think fit in his/her/its/their absolute discretion
against the joint and/or several interest of the Customer and/or
the Guarantor in any land, realty or asset in favour of the Seller
and in the Customer's and/or Guarantor's name as may be necessary
to secure the said Customer's and/or Guarantor's obligations and
indebtedness to the Seller and further to do and perform all necessary
and other acts including instituting any necessary legal proceedings,
and further to execute all or any documents in the Seller's absolute
discretion which may be necessary or advantageous to give effect
to the provisions of this clause.
14.
Cancellation
14.1 The Seller may cancel these terms and conditions or cancel
delivery of Services at any time before the Services are delivered
by giving written notice. The Seller shall not be liable for any
loss or damage whatever arising from such cancellation.
15.
General
15.1 If any provision of these terms and conditions shall be invalid,
void, illegal or unenforceable the validity, existence, legality
and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not be affected,
prejudiced or impaired.
15.2 All Services supplied by the Seller are subject to the laws
of Queensland and the Seller takes no responsibility for changes
in the law which affect the Services supplied.
15.3 The Seller shall be under no liability whatever to the Customer
for any indirect loss and/or expense (including loss of profit)
suffered by the Customer arising out of a breach by the Seller of
these terms and conditions.
15.4 In the event of any breach of this contract by the Seller the
remedies of the Customer shall be limited to damages. Under no circumstances
shall the liability of the Seller exceed the Price of the Services.
15.5 The Customer shall not set off against the Price amounts due
from the Seller.
15.6 The Seller may license or sub-contract all or any part of its
rights and obligations without the Customer's consent.
15.7 The Seller reserves the right to review these terms and conditions
at any time and from time to time. If, following any such review,
there is to be any change in such terms and conditions, that change
will take effect from the date on which the seller notifies the
Customer of such change.
15.8 Neither party shall be liable for any default due to any act
of God, war, terrorism, strike, lock out, industrial action, fire,
flood, drought, storm or other event beyond the reasonable control
of either party.
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