

These Terms and Conditions of Sale apply to all Republic of Ireland Sales Orders:-
DEFINITIONS
AND INTERPRETATION
In these Conditions of Sale, the words and expressions listed below shall
have the following meanings, unless the context requires otherwise:
"Seller" means Synergy POP-Solutions Limited, (a company
incorporated under the Companies Acts in Northern Ireland under registered
number, NI 28827 and having its registered office at: The Retail Institute,
26 Ormeau Business Park, The Gasworks, Belfast, BT7 2JA
"Conditions" means these terms and conditions of sale relating
to the sale of the
Goods and any special terms which are agreed in writing between the Seller
and the Buyer;
"Order" means this contract incorporating these Conditions
for the sale of the Goods to the Buyer;
"Buyer" means the person who has ordered or is, or has been,
supplied with the Goods by the Seller pursuant to the Order;
"Goods" means any goods or services supplied or to be supplied
to the Buyer in terms of the Order, including any instalment of the Goods
or any Goods substituted for the Goods.
References to a "person" include any natural person, any
legal person, body or organisation incorporated or
unincorporated or any other person, body or organisation whatsoever, as the
context may require.
A reference to time of day shall be construed as the time in the United Kingdom
expressed in terms of the twenty-four hour clock.
1.
CONDITIONS TO PREVAIL
Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Seller, these Conditions of Sale
shall override any terms or conditions stipulated, incorporated or referred
to by the Buyer, whether in the order or in any earlier negotiations.
2.
ORDERS AND SPECIFICATIONS
(A) NO ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ORDER
The Seller shall be under no obligation to acknowledge receipt of an Order
from the Buyer, and shall be entitled to execute the Order without further
reference to the Buyer.
(B) SPECIFICATIONS
The Buyer shall be responsible to the Seller for ensuring the accuracy of
the terms of any order (including any applicable specification or artwork)
submitted by the Buyer, and for giving the Seller necessary information relating
to the Goods within a sufficient time to enable the Seller to perform the
Order in accordance with its terms.
The quantity, quality and description of and any specification (and/art work)
for the Goods shall be those set out in the Sellers quotation (if accepted
by the Buyer) or the Buyers Order (if accepted by the Seller).
If the Goods are to be manufactured or any process is to be applied to the
Goods by the Seller in accordance with any specification (and/art work) submitted
by the Buyer, the Buyer shall indemnify the Seller against all loss, damages,
costs and expenses awarded against or incurred by the Seller in connection
with or paid or agreed to be paid by the Seller in settlement of any claim
for infringement of any patent, copyright, design, trademark or other industrial
or intellectual property rights of any other person which results from the
Sellers use of the Buyers specification (and/art work).
The Seller reserves the right to make any changes in the specification (and/art work) of the Goods which are required to conform to any applicable statutory or EU requirements or, where the Goods are to be supplied to the Sellers specification which do not materially effect their quality or performance.
3.
PRICES
Prices are the Sellers prices ruling at the date of despatch. If extra
expense is incurred as a result of the Buyers instructions, or lack
of instructions, the Seller shall be entitled to recover such extra expense
from the Buyer.
4.
TERMS OF PAYMENT
Payment shall be pro-forma (as specified on quotation documents) unless terms
have been altered by written consent of the Seller. If any sum remains unpaid
after the due date of payment, as specified on the quotation, the Buyer shall
pay the Seller, as liquidated damages, a penalty clause of 15% of the outstanding
amount and a surcharge of 2.5% of the unpaid sum for each month, or part of
a month, during which it remains unpaid as aforesaid. Such surcharge shall
be due for payment immediately on invoice by the Seller, and shall itself
be liable to surcharge as above failing payment before the end of the month
in which it is invoiced.
The Buyer may not withhold payment of any invoice or other amount due to the
Seller by reason of any right of set-off or counterclaim which the Buyer may
have or alleged to have for any reason whatsoever.
5.
DELIVERY AND PASSING OF RISK
(A) Any stipulated time for delivery shall date from the receipt by
the Seller of the Buyers written order. For
deliveries within the Republic of Ireland, unless otherwise agreed, the Seller
(or his agent(s)) shall deliver the
goods to the Buyer and the goods shall be at the Buyers risk on dispatch.
(B) If the Buyer fails to take delivery of the goods or any part of
them on the due date; and to any
Instructions or documents required to enable the Goods to be delivered on
the due date, the Seller may on
giving written notice to the Buyer store or arrange for the storage of the
Goods and on the service of the
notice; risk in the Goods shall pass to the Buyer and delivery of the Goods
shall be deemed to have taken
place and the Buyer shall pay to the Seller all costs and expenses including
storage, any re-delivery and
insurance charges arising from its failure to provide.
6.
DELAY IN DELIVERY
Whilst the Seller will make every reasonable effort to complete the Order
by the date or date therein specified for delivery of Goods, or provision
of services, such date or dates shall only constitute the times by which the
Seller expects to effect such delivery or provision and the Sellers
failure to so deliver or provide by the due date or due dates shall not constitute
a breach of contract, and the Seller shall not be responsible for any direct
or consequential loss resulting there from.
7.
PASSING OF PROPERTY
(A) Notwithstanding that risk in the Goods shall pass to the Buyer
when the goods are delivered to the Buyer, title to the Goods sold to the
Buyer shall not pass to the Buyer until payment shall have made in full by
the Buyer for those goods.
(B) In the event that before title and property in the Goods has passed
to the Buyer, they shall have become admixed, incorporated, become constituents
of, or converted into other products of or belonging to the Buyer or in his
possession or control the Seller shall be entitled to the beneficial
and equitable ownership in such other products as if they were solely and
simply the Goods until the Goods have been paid for in full by the Buyer.
8.
SUSPENSION OR CANCELLATION OF SALES ORDERS
(A) If the Buyer shall fail to pay to the Seller on the due date any
sum payable to the Seller under any circumstances whatsoever or shall have
a receiving order in bankruptcy made against him, or shall make any arrangement
with his creditors or being a corporate body shall have a receiver, appointed,
or if any order shall be made or any resolution passed for winding up the
same the Seller may, without prejudice to its other rights, either suspend
or cancel further deliveries and debit the Buyer with any loss sustained thereby.
(B) The Seller may cancel this contract at any time before the Goods
are delivered by giving written notice to
the Buyer. On receiving such notice the Seller shall promptly repay to the
Buyer any sums paid in respect o
the Price.
The Seller shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatever arising from
such cancellation.
9.
WARRANTIES
(A) Unless otherwise agreed in writing and signed by a director of
Synergy POP Solutions, the Seller shall not be liable for any recommendations,
advice, opinion or statement given or made by the Seller, its servant or representatives.
(B) The Seller will not in any circumstances be liable for any damage,
direct or indirect, or consequential loss, sustained by the Buyer which may
in any degree be attributable to the adoption by the Buyer or any third party
or technical information, data or advice given by or on behalf of the Buyer
in relation to the use of the Goods. For the avoidance of doubt, this sub-section
is totally ineffective in respect of negligence resulting In death or personal
injury.
(C) For the avoidance of doubt the Seller hereby absolves itself from
any liability in respect of any damage caused by unauthorised alterations
to the Goods after delivery.
10.
CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGE
The Seller accepts no responsibility in any circumstances whatsoever for any
direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage, howsoever arising, which
may be sustained in connection with Goods supplied, whether such Goods are
of the Sellers own manufacture or not.
11.
LIABILITY
(A) If the goods, or any part thereof, are defective solely as a result
of the faulty materials or workmanship of the Seller, the Sellers liability
shall be limited, at its discretion, either to replacing such Goods or the
defective part thereof (as the case may be) or to giving the Buyer credit
for the value thereof, but no such liability shall arise unless notification
of any defect is received by the Seller in writing within ten days, from receipt
of the goods by the Buyer and the allegedly defective Goods are thereafter
returned to the Seller carriage paid.
(B) Save as provided by these Conditions of Sale, all conditions and
warranties express or implied, statutory or otherwise and all other obligations
and liabilities whatsoever of the Seller whether in contract or in tort or
otherwise are excluded.
12.
IMDEMNITY
The Buyer shall indemnify the Seller against all claims in respect of any
loss, injury, or damage sustained by a third party arising from the sale of
the Goods to the Buyer howsoever caused and also against all actions, proceedings
costs, claims, demands and expenses made brought or claimed against the Seller
in respect of the infringement of any patent, trade mark, registered design
or similar right arising from the manufacture or supply of any Goods or the
doing of any work or the use of any article or material by the Seller to the
design or specification or upon the instructions or order of the Buyer.
13.
LIEN
In addition to any right of lien given by law, the Seller shall have a general
lien upon all goods to be supplied to the Buyer in respect of all sums due
from or claims against the Buyer. Without prejudice to any other right given
by law to the Seller, the Seller may upon fourteen days notice to the Buyer
sell any Goods of the Buyer upon which the Seller has and lien, and where
the property in such Goods is at the time of such sale in the Buyers possession,
shall be deemed to be his agent for the purpose of effecting such sale. The
Seller may apply the proceeds to such sale towards the satisfaction of sums
due from or claims against the Buyer without prejudice to the Sellers
right to recover the balance thereof from the Buyer.
14.
PERFORMANCE OF CONTRACT
Each delivery shall be considered a separate transaction and the failure of
any one delivery shall not affect the due performance of the contract as regards
other deliveries.
15.
DESIGN RIGHTS
The goods are original designs and creations. All specifications, patterns,
drawings, photographs, samples and information provided by the Seller to the
Buyer shall remain the exclusive property of the Seller which retains the
right to estimate, produce and/or reproduce it in whole or in part of in any
format. The Buyer will not disclose to any third party the nature of any specifications,
patterns, drawings, photographs, samples and information to any third party
and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing will not disclose
any information to any other third party for the purpose of obtaining competitive
bids or expose information indiscretely. If a presentation is not accepted
all patterns, drawings, photographs, samples and information provided by the
Seller to the Buyer must be returned to the Seller immediately.
No right or licence is granted under this contract of sale to the Buyer under
any patent, trademark, copyright, registered design or other intellectual
property right except the right to use or resell the Goods.
16.
PRELIMINARY WORK
Designs, models and samples and/or other work produced, whether experimentally
or otherwise, at the Buyers request will be charged for. No work produced
by the Seller shall be exhibited, displayed or reproduced either wholly or
in part without the prior written consent of the Seller.
17.
APPROVAL OF PROOFS AND SPECIFICATIONS
The Seller may submit proofs of any subject matter of this Order for the Buyers
approval and shall not be liable for any error not corrected by the Buyer.
Buyers corrections from the execution of the initial brief (including
alteration in style, or composition and changes in style, type or layout when
not specified or expressly left to the discretion of the Seller), including
the cost of additional proofs in relation thereto, shall incur an extra charge.
18. MARGINS
The Buyer shall take delivery of the Goods tendered notwithstanding that the
quantity so delivered shall be greater than or less than the quantity purchased
provided that such discrepancy in quantity shall not exceed ten per cent.
The purchase price shall be adjusted accordingly.
19.
COLOUR MATCHING
Whilst every effort is made to match colours, the nature of the forms of printing,
manufacturing processes and substrates dictate that exact colour matches may
not be possible. The Buyer will therefore agree to accept that within normal
industry tolerances all colours will be matched as closely as possible to
the Buyers specifications.
20.
FORCE MAJEURE
If the performance of the contract shall be delayed by any circumstances or
conditions beyond the control of the Seller including (but without prejudice
to the generality of the foregoing): war, industrial disputes, strikes, lockouts,
riots, fire, storm , Act of God, accidents, non-availability or shortage of
materials or labour, any statute, rule, bylaw, order or requisition made or
issued by a Government or Government Department, local or other duly constituted
authority, then the Seller shall have the right to suspend further performance
of the contract until such time as the cause of the delay shall no longer
be present.
If the performance of the contract by the Seller shall be prevented by any
such circumstances or conditions beyond the control of the Seller, then the
Seller shall have the right to be discharged from further performance of any
liability under the contract. If the Seller exercises such right the Buyer
shall thereupon pay the contract price less a reasonable allowance for what
has not been performed by the Seller.
21.
CONTRACTS (Rights of Third Parties Act) 1999
The provisions of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties Act) 1999 shall not
apply to this contract and a person who is not party to this contract shall
have no right under that Act to enforce any term of the contract.
22.
NOTICES
Any notice under or in connection with this contract shall be in writing and
shall be served by first class post or by hand on the party receiving the
notice or sent by recorded delivery or e-mail (to the address of that party
notified to sending the notice in this contract or at or to such other address
as may be subsequently notified by the party receiving the notice to the party
sending the notice).
In the absence of evidence of earlier receipt any notice shall be deemed to
be duly served. If delivered personally when left at the address of the party
receiving the notice: if sent by recorded delivery 3 days after posting: and
if sent by e-mail: when received
23.
ARBITRATION
Any dispute, difference or question, which shall at any time arise between
the parties to the contract as to the construction, meaning or effect of these
Conditions of Sale, or the rights and liabilities of the parties, or otherwise
howsoever relating thereto shall be referred to the decision of a single arbitrator
to be nominated in the event of disagreement between the parties by the Chairman
of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Northern Ireland (or his
nominee) and this shall be deemed to be an arbitration agreement within the
meaning of the Arbitration Act 1996 or any statutory re-enactment or modification
thereof. The arbitration will be conducted in accordance with the Arbitration
Act 1996.
24.
LAW
(A) This contract is subject to the Law of Northern Ireland
(B) All disputes arising out of this Contract will be subject to the
exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Northern Ireland, subject to clause
23 above.