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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS
1. Toyou Global Testing Technology Company Limited
(hereinafter “the Company”) agrees to provider its services
in accordance with and subject to the terms and conditions
herein contained (hereinafter “the Conditions”). The
conditions may only be modified by a variation expressed in
writing and signed on behalf of the Company by a director
and no other action on the part of the Company or its
employees or agents shall be construed as an acceptance of
any other terms and conditions.
2. The Company acts for the person or body from whom the
request to provide its services has originated (hereinafter
“the Principal”). No other party is entitled to give
instructions to the Company unless agreed by the Company.
3. All right (including but not limited
to copyright) in any test reports, certificates of
inspection or other material produced by the Company in the
course of providing its services shall remain vested in the
Company. The Principal shall not reproduce or make copies,
publish or disclose the contents of any such material or
extracts thereof to any third party without the Company’s
prior written consent which may be refused at its
discretion. The Principal further undertakes that its
servants and agents shall keep confidential and shall not
publish or otherwise use any information that any be
acquired relating to the Company’s activities.
4.4.1 The Company undertakes to
exercise due care and skill in the performance of its
services and accepts responsibility only where such skill
and care is not exercised.
4.2 The liability of the Company in
respect of any claims for loss, damage or expense of
whatsoever nature and howsoever arising in respect of any
breach of contract and or any failure to exercise due skill
and care by the Company shall in no circumstances exceed a
total aggregate sum equal to three times the amount of the
fee or commission payable in respect of the specific service
required under the particular contract with the Company
which gives rise to such claims provided however that the
Company shall have no liability in respect of any claims for
indirect or consequential loss including loss of profit and
or loss of future business and or loss of production and or
cancellation of contracts entered into by the Principal.
4.3 The Company shall not in any event
be liable for any loss or damage caused by delay in
performance or non-performance of any of its services where
the same is occasioned by any cause whatsoever that is
beyond the Company’s control including but not limited to
war, civil disturbance, requisitioning, governmental or
parliamentary restriction, prohibitions or enactment of any
kind, import of export regulations strike or trade dispute
(where involving its own employees or those of any contract
for the provision of services without incurring any
materials), breakdown of machinery, fire or accident. Should
any such event occur the Company may cancel or suspend any
contract for the provisions of services without incurring
any liability whatsoever.
4.4 The Company will not be liable to
the Principal for any loss or damage whatsoever sustained by
the Principal as a result of any failure by the Company to
comply with any time estimate given by the Company relating
to the provision of its services. [See clause 9.1] [See
clause 9.2]
5.5.1 Subject to the Principal’s
instructions as accepted by the Company, the test reports,
surveys, certificates of inspection of other material
produced by the Company shall contain statements of opinion
made with due care within the limitation of the instructions
receives by the Company. The Company is under no obligation
to refer to or report upon any facts or circumstances which
are outside the specific instructions received. The report
is considered invalidated without the special seal for
testing of PFC.
5.2 The testing party is just
responsible for the samples received, and the test results
only show the comments on the samples, without bearing any
responsibility for the mass products upon the product usage.
6. The Company shall be entitled as its discretion to
delegate the performance of the whole or any part of the
services contracted for with the principal to any agent or
subcontractor.
7. Every officer, employee, agent or subcontractor of the
Company shall have the benefit of the limitations of
liability and the indemnities contained in the General
Conditions. So far as relates to such limitations and
indemnities, any contract entered into by the Company is
entered into not only on its own behalf but also as agent
and trustee for every such person as aforesaid.
8. If the requirements of the Principal necessitate the
analysis of samples by the Principal or by any third party
the Company will pass on the results of the analysis but
without responsibility for its accuracy. Where the Company
is only able to witness an analysis by the Principal or by
any third party the Company will provide confirmation, if
such be the case that a correct sample has been analyzed but
will not otherwise be responsible for the accuracy of such
analysis.
9. The Principal will:
9.1 Ensure that instructions to the Company are given in due
time and are accompanied by sufficient information to enable
the required services to be performed effectively.
9.2 Accept that documents reflecting arrangements or
agreements made between the Principal and any third party,
or third party documents such as copies of sale, letters of
credit, bills of lading, etc. are-if received by the Company
considered to be for information only, without extending or
restricting the services to be provided or obligations
accepted by the Company.
9.3 Procure all necessary access for the Company’s
representatives to enable the required services to be
performed effectively.
9.4 Supply, if required, any special equipment and personnel
necessary for the performance of the required services.
9.5 Ensure that all necessary measures are taken for safety
and security of working conditions, sites and installations
during the performance of the required services.
9.6 Take all necessary steps to eliminate or remedy an
obstruction to or interruptions in the performance of the
required services and repack all inspected goods immediately
after inspection or survey of them.
9.7 Inform the Company in advance of any known hazards or
dangers, actual or potential, associated with any request
for the provision of services by the Company including but
not limited to the presence or risk of radiation, toxic or
noxious or explosive elements or materials, environmental
pollution or poisons.
10. The Principal shall guarantee, hold harmless and
indemnify the Company and its officers, employees, agents or
subcontractors against.
10.1 All claims made by any third party for any loss, damage
or expense of whatsoever mature and howsoever arising
relating to the performance, purported performance or
non-performance of any of services to the extent that the
aggregate of any such claims relating to anyone service
exceeds the limit mentioned in clause 4.2.
10.2 Any loss or damage suffered by the Company as a result
of the provision of services by the Company otherwise from
the Company’s own error, negligence or willful default.
11.11.1 The Principal will punctually pay the Company
immediately upon presentation of the relevant invoice or
within such other period as may have been agreed in writing
by the Company all charges rendered by the Company, failing
which interest will become due at the rate of 1.5 percent
per month from the date of invoice until payment. The
Principal further agrees and undertakes to reimburse the
Company all disbursements reasonably incurred in connection
with the provision of its services.
11.2 The Principal shall not be entitled to retain or defer
payment of any sums due to the Company on account of any
dispute, cross claim or set off which it may allege against
the Company.
11.3 In the event of any suspension of payment arrangement
with creditors, bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or
cessation of business or failure of the Principal to pay
part or all of any sums owing to the Company, the Company
shall be entitled to suspend all further performance of its
services and withhold the issue of any test report, survey,
certificate of inspection or other material requested
forthwith and without liability until payment of all sums
owing to the Company together with interest thereon is made.
12. Without prejudice to any right the Company may have at
law or under the Conditions, the Company has the following
right in the event of non-payment of sums owing to the
Company as set out below:
12.1 The Company has a general and particular lien over all
samples delivered to be tested for all claims and sums owing
by the Principal to the Company under any contract
whatsoever and in any other way whatsoever.
12.2 During the currency of any such lien the Company is
entitled to be paid reasonable storage charges for samples
retained in the Company’s custody.
12.3 Without prejudice to the Company’s lien and other right
under clause 12.1 to 12.2 above, if test, inspection or
survey of the goods take place on the premises of the
Company, the Company may give notice to the Principal that
the goods (or any part thereof) are ready for collection and
the Principal will collect the same within three calendar
days (Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays excepted). Upon
the expiry of this period, if the goods are not collected by
the Principal, at the sole discretion of the Company the
goods may be deemed abandoned and or destroyed.
12.4 Without prejudice to clause 12.3 above, the Company
will have the discretion to store the goods (or any of them)
at their own premises or elsewhere at the Principal’s
expense if the Principal has deposited the goods at the
Company’s premises for the performance of these services and
has subsequently failed to collect the said goods.
12.5 The expenses by way of disbursements that the Company
may reclaim from the Principal include all reasonable costs
incurred by the Company (whether by way of storage,
insurance or otherwise) in respect of the goods and it is
expressly declared that it will be reasonable but not
mandatory for the Company to effect comprehensive insurance
in respect of the goods.
12.6 Without prejudice to the Company’s lien and other
rights under clause 12.1 to 12.5 above, the risk and
property in the goods shall remain at all times in the
Principal.
13. In the event of the Company being prevented by reason of
any cause whatsoever outside the Company’s control from
performing or completing any service for which an order has
been given or an agreement made, the Principal will pay to
the Company:
13.1 The amount of all abortive expenditure actually made or
incurred;
13.2 And a proportion of the agreed fee or commission equal
to the proportion (if any) of the service actually carried
out; and the Company shall be relieved of all responsibility
whatsoever for the partial or total non-performance of the
required service.
14 The Company will be discharged from all liability to the
Principal for all claims for loss, damage or expense unless
suit is brought within twelve months after the date of the
performance by the Company of the service which gives rise
to the claim or in the event of any alleged non-performance
within twelve months of the date then such service should
have been completed.
15 In the event that any unforeseen additional time or costs
are incurred in the course of carrying out any of its
services the Company shall be entitled to render additional
charges as shall reasonably reflect such additional time and
costs incurred.
16 All contracts for provision of services by the Company
and the Conditions shall be construed in accordance with and
governed by the laws of the People’s Republic of China
(hereinafter “PRC”) for the purpose of any arbitral or
litigation proceedings such contracts shall be deemed to
have been made and performed in PRC. If any provision
contained in the Conditions is and or becomes invalid,
illegal or unenforceable in any respect under the laws of
PRC, the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions hereof shall not in any way be affected
or impaired thereby.
17 Any dispute or claim arising out of or relating to the
provision of, or any agreement to provide, services by the
Company shall be referred to and determined by arbitration
subject to the Company’s sole and overriding discretion to
commence litigation proceedings in the courts of PRC or the
courts of any other country as the Company may choose. The
parties may agree to the appointment of an arbitrator
failing which either party may, after having made a written
request to concur in the appointment of an arbitrator,
request the China International Economic and Trade
Arbitration Commission (CIETAC)[the Shenzhen Sub-Commission]
to appoint an arbitrator. The place of arbitration shall be
in Shenzhen. There shall only be one arbitrator. The
language to be used in the arbitral proceedings shall be
Chinese.