Terms & Conditions

General Conditions

1. All prices quoted are, unless otherwise stated, exclusive of Value Added Tax.
2. Interest is payable to the company on any overdue account at 5% over Barclays Bank base rate from time to time as from the due date of payment.
3. These conditions will always prevail over any other conditions including a customer’s standard condition of supply unless a variation thereto has been countersigned by a director of the company.
4. All quotations, estimates and prices exclude:
   (a)  Site preparation and foundation work.
   (b)  A connection to mains services including housings and metres.
   (c)  Restitution of damage upon removal of unit.
5. All quotations and estimates are made on the basis that:
   (a)  There will be a suitable and unrestricted hard access route for a 40 foot articulated vehicle and cranage both onto the site and onto a position adjacent to where any unit is being delivered.
   (b)  The site is level, free from underground or overhead obstructions and of sufficient ground bearing capacity to accept the full loading of the units to be supplied and their contents.
   (c)  Delivery can take place and any other services performed during the normal weekday working hours.
   (d)  If any unit is to be double stacked upon an existing unit the customer warrants that the lower unit is on foundations adequate for the weight of both units and their contents and that the structure of the lower unit can adequately carry and transfer to the foundation the weight and strain of the upper cabin.
6. Any delivery time or date is an estimate only and the company will not be liable for any consequential loss arising as a result of late delivery.
7. The customer accepts full responsibility in laying down its specification for the unit that it will comply with all relevant regulations including but not limited to planning permission building regulations consents health and safety regulations and fire regulations and will indemnify the company against any costs, claims, demands or expenses arising as a result of their breach.
8. All the company’s contracts are deemed to be made at Setchey, Kings Lynn, Norfolk and shall be governed by the laws of England and customers shall submit themselves to the jurisdiction of the English Courts.
   
   Conditions of Hire


9. (a)  The hire period shall commence on the date of delivery of the unit/s to the customer and shall terminate when the     goods are collected by the company.
   (b)  The customer will give at least 72 hours notice of termination of hire.
10. The unit / s will be at the risk of the customer during the hire period.
11. The customer will keep the unit insured fully comprehensibly at all times during the hire period against loss or damage by fire, theft and other risk usually covered by comprehensive insurance of products of the type of unit, such insurance to be the full replacement value of the hire product with a reputable United Kingdom based insurance company.
12. The customer shall give written notice to the company of any occurrence which will or may give rise to a claim being made on any insurance pursuant to condition eleven, such notice to be given within 24 hours of the occurrence being known to the customer.
13. The customer shall be entitled at any time and from time to time itself to effect at the expense of the company insurance against all or any of the contingencies above referred to.
14. The customer will at all times keep the unit, fixtures and fittings in good condition and will reimburse to the company the cost of any repairs or of making good any damage caused thereto during the hire period howsoever the same may be caused.
15. The contract of hire will terminate forthwith should any of the following occur:
    (a)  If the customer shall fail to punctually pay any sum due to the company under this hiring contract.
    (b)  The hirer allows anything to be done whereby the company’s rights in the hire product may be prejudiced or jeopardised.
    (c)  An application is made against the hirer under the Insolvency Act 1986.
    (d)  A meeting of the hirers creditors happen and or any special arrangements be made with these creditors.
    (e)  There is a receiving order made against the hirer.
    (f)  There is a petition for winding up or an administration order presented against the Hirer.
    (g)  The hirer passes a resolution for winding up.
    (h)  The hirer has a receiver or administrative receiver appointed.
    (i)  The Company becomes entitled to terminate any other agreement of any kind you may have with Carter Cabin Hire Ltd or any of its subsidiary companies (as such expressions are defined in section 736 of the Companies Act 1985) and have issued a notice to you to that effect under the terms of that agreement.
    (j)  The hirer breaches any other financial accommodation it may have with any bank or other financial intermediary and fail to remedy that breach within any agreed grace periods. (N.B. The Company will carry out periodic searches with credit reference agencies.)
16. If any of the above occur then the company may treat the hiring contract as being wrongfully repudiated by the customer and in such event the customer hereby authorises the company forthwith to retake possession of the unit and for that purpose to enter into or upon any premises or site where it may be and take the unit from any land or buildings (the customer being responsible for any damage thereby caused but without prejudiced to any other right of the company against the customer for the recovery of monies due.
17. The hirer is responsible for any liability or cost arising from the possession or use of the goods on hire.
18. The hirer must not without prior written authorisation from the Company either moves or sub let the goods on hire.
    
    Conditions of Sale


19. All units shall be paid for either prior to dispatch or COD. Under no circumstances will any unit be left on site until paid for. If it is necessary for the company to refuse delivery for this reason then the customer will reimburse to the company the cost of aborting delivery in addition to any other damages that may be payable under the terms of this agreement.
20. Risk passes upon delivery of the unit to the site and ownership passes when all monies due to the company have been paid in full.