Purchase
orders for Products or Services will constitute an offer by the Customer and
may only be accepted by CENTRA NETWORKS in writing. Any amendments to purchase orders for
Products or Services must be approved by CENTRA NETWORKS in writing to be
effective. Only these Terms (not other
terms and conditions which may be attached to or incorporated in a purchase
order) form part of the agreement between the parties. Acceptance of a purchase order will not be
acceptance of any such terms or conditions.
Payment
terms are strictly 7 days from the date of invoice to clients with approved
credit terms. Products and Services will
be invoiced on delivery.
CENTRA NETWORKS makes no warranty in relation to the Products or
Services other than as contained in these Terms or as prescribed by a law which
cannot be excluded or in the case of Products,
as provided by the Products’ respective manufacturers as made known to the
Customer in the documents supplied by CENTRA NETWORKS or the manufacturer or as
otherwise published or made known to the Customer. Defects in Services reported to CENTRA
NETWORKS within 30 days of delivery of the Service will be rectified by CENTRA
NETWORKS at no charge to the Customer. CENTRA
NETWORKS will not provide claimed warranty services for defects or deficiencies
in Products or Services which are caused by:
(a) external causes including natural disaster, fire, accident, neglect,
misuse, vandalism, water, lightning, power surge or spike;
(b) the use of a Product for other than its intended purpose;
(c) the use with or connection of a Product to items not approved by CENTRA
NETWORKS ;
(d) the performance of maintenance or attempted repair by persons other than
CENTRA NETWORKS or as authorised by CENTRA
NETWORKS ;
(e) changes made to the deliverables created by performance of the Services
or to the operating environment;
(f) the relocation of Products by the Customer; or
(g) any configuration or reconfiguration by the Customer of the Products or
other equipment with which the Products interface.
Unless
the Customer gives CENTRA NETWORKS written notice of any aspect of a
deliverable which is alleged by the Customer to be otherwise than in accordance
with these Terms or any applicable specifications,
within 7 days of the date of delivery of that deliverable,
the Customer shall be deemed to have accepted that deliverable on
delivery. Where the Customer puts a
deliverable to commercial use, it
shall be deemed to have accepted that deliverable on the first day of such use, whether or not a notice of the kind contemplated
by this clause is given to CENTRA NETWORKS as required.
Products
returned will only be credited to the Customer’s account if the return is
authorised by CENTRA NETWORKS and the Products are in the same condition as
delivered by CENTRA NETWORKS and only if received by CENTRA NETWORKS within 14
days of delivery. CENTRA NETWORKS
reserves the right to charge the Customer for any costs or losses incurred by CENTRA NETWORKS if
Products which are not faulty are returned or returned without authorisation, returned later than 14 days from delivery or in a
different condition to the condition the Products were in when delivered by CENTRA
NETWORKS. CENTRA NETWORKS will use its
best endeavours to minimise such costs and losses.
8. Risk and Insurance.
Risk of
loss, theft, damage, deterioration or destruction of Products passes to the
Customer upon the earlier of:
(a) delivery to the Customer;
(b) the taking of possession by the Customer; and
(c) the delivery to any carrier contracted to the Customer for delivery to
the Customer.
The
Customer acknowledges that, unless
otherwise agreed in writing, all
intellectual property rights attaching to the Products or arising out of the
provision of Services are and will remain the property of CENTRA NETWORKS (or
its supplier, where such rights are
owned by that supplier). Software will
be licensed to the Customer on the terms of the relevant license agreement
provided with the Product or as otherwise agreed between CENTRA NETWORKS and
the Customer in writing. Any rights to
be conferred on Customer will only commence on payment of all charges payable
in connection with those rights.
13. Termination.
Where
the Customer:
(a) makes default in any payment or breaches any of these Terms;
(b) becomes unable to pay its debts as and when they fall due; or
(c) commits an act of bankruptcy or, being a company, enters into
liquidation or provisional liquidation
whether compulsory or voluntary or compounds with its creditors
generally or has a receiver or receiver manager or administrator appointed over
all or part of its assets or passes a resolution for winding-up or a petition
is presented for its winding-up,
CENTRA
NETWORKS may without prejudice to any of its rights or remedies under these
Terms or otherwise by notice to the Customer:
(a) suspend further supply of all goods and services offered by CENTRA
NETWORKS and or its subsidiaries and require payment in advance for future
supply;
(b) recover possession of any Product for which payment has not been made;
(c) terminate all or any purchase orders for Products or Services which have
been accepted by CENTRA NETWORKS;
(d) claim immediate payment of all moneys due by the Customer in respect of
all Products and/or Services which will then be immediately due and payable
notwithstanding the due date or dates for payment or any terms agreed by CENTRA
NETWORKS; and/or
(e) Continue to enforce its rights and recover from the Customer such
payments and any other amounts owing as and when they fall due.
The
Customer acknowledges that CENTRA NETWORKS has not made any warranty or
representation, express or implied, in relation to the Products or the Services, including whether they are suitable for a
particular purpose (whether such purpose was made known to CENTRA NETWORKS or
not), unless provided in writing.
15. No Implied Terms.
To the fullest extent permitted by law,
the parties agree to exclude any terms which would otherwise be implied into
these Terms by any statute. The
liability of CENTRA NETWORKS for a breach of a condition or warranty implied
into these Terms by the Trade Practices Act,
1974 is limited at the option of CENTRA NETWORKS:
(a) if the breach relates to goods, to the replacement of the goods or the
supply of equivalent goods, or the repair of the goods, or the payment of the
cost of replacing the goods or of acquiring equivalent goods or the payment of
the cost of having the goods repaired; and
(b) if the breach relates to services, the supplying of the services again
or the payment of the cost of having the services supplied again.
16. Limitation of Liability.
16.1 CENTRA NETWORKS will not
be liable to the Customer for any indirect or consequential damages including
loss of profits, revenue, data or use arising out of or in relation to the
supply of Products and/or Services,
even if CENTRA NETWORKS knew or should have known of the possibility of such
loss or damage and whether damages are claimed in contract, tort (including negligence) or statute.
16.2 Except in relation to
liability for personal injury (including sickness and death), or damage to tangible property, CENTRA NETWORKS’s liability to the Customer in
respect of any loss or damage (including consequential or indirect loss or
damage) which may be suffered or incurred or which may arise directly or
indirectly in respect of the supply of Products and/or Services pursuant to
these Terms or in respect of a failure or omission on the part of CENTRA
NETWORKS to comply with its obligations under these Terms, shall be, in
aggregate, limited to an amount
equal to the amount paid by the Customer to CENTRA NETWORKS under these Terms.
18. General.
18.1 All notices must be in
writing and sent by mail, hand delivery or transmitted by facsimile to the
address or facsimile number of the receiving party and shall be deemed
delivered, in the case of:
(a) hand delivery, on delivery;
(b) posting, three days after dispatch; and
(c) Facsimile, on completion of complete and legible transmission.
18.2 No leniency,
indulgence or extension of time granted by CENTRA NETWORKS to the Customer will
prejudice any of CENTRA NETWORKS’s rights in any way or constitute a waiver of
any of CENTRA NETWORKS’s rights.
18.3 If any of these Terms are for any reason
declared to be or become unenforceable, invalid or illegal, the remaining Terms
will remain in full force and effect.
18.4 These Terms are governed
by the laws of Queensland and the parties
agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Queensland.
19. Taxes and GST.
19.1 The amount payable to CENTRA NETWORKS
(“the Price”) is inclusive of existing taxes,
duties and government charges imposed or levied in Australia in connection with the
supply of the Products and Services. The
Customer shall be liable for any new or varied taxes,
duties or charges imposed subsequent to CENTRA NETWORKS’s quotation or proposal
or to this agreement in respect of the supply of the Products and
Services. CENTRA NETWORKS will issue a
valid tax invoice where GST is to be recovered.