TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE SUPPLY OF
SECURITY
SERVICES
1. DEFINITIONS
1.1. Definitions: In these Terms and Conditions, unless
the context otherwise requires:
“Agreement” has the meaning described in clause 2.2.
“Business
Day” means any day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday in Auckland, New
Zealand.
“Casual Services” means any Services to be provided on an ad hoc or “as required” basis
where those
Services are referred to as Casual Services by CROWN Security.
“Charges” means the
charges payable by you for providing the Services as set out in the Temporary Security
Services
Form (or, where the Agreement arises by way of your acceptance of a quotation or our
confirmation
of your request for Services, in such quotation or confirmation of request for
Services) provided that the
charges may be varied in accordance with clause 4.6.
“Commencement
Date” means the first day on which the Services have been requested to be provided.
“Customer”,
“You” and “your” means you, the Customer.
“CROWN Security”, We”, “us” and “our” means CROWN
Security Guard Services Limited and includes its officers,
employees, contractors, agents,
successors and assignees where appropriate.
“Guarantor” means any person or persons named as a
Guarantor on any form provided by the Customer to
CROWN Security.
“Permanent Services” means
any Services that are required to be provided on an ongoing, continual basis
where those Services
are referred to as Permanent Services by Crown Security.
“Minimum Wage Rates” means the minimum
wage rates set by the Government under the Minimum Wage Act
1983 and associated regulations as
updated from time to time.
“Premises” means any premises you have specified to us.
“Services”
means, where the Agreement arises by way of a quotation or confirmation of request for
Services,
the security services described in such quotation or confirmation of request for
Services or the security
services described in the Temporary Security Services Form or any other
form where these terms and
conditions are intended to apply to the supply of the
Services.
“Temporary Security Services Form” means the document labelled Temporary Security
Services Form signed
by you.
1.2. Interpretation: In these Terms and Conditions, unless the
context otherwise requires:
(a) section, clause and other headings are for convenience only and
will not affect the interpretation of these
Terms and Conditions;
(b) singular will include
plural and vice versa;
(c) reference to a statute or regulation will include all amendments and
re-enactments thereof and any
subordinate legislation and regulations made thereunder;
(d) the
term “including” means “including without limitation”; and
(e) any obligation not to do anything
will be deemed to include an obligation not to suffer, permit or cause that
thing to be
done.
2. AGREEMENT
2.1. Terms and Conditions: Unless agreed otherwise by us in writing,
these terms and conditions (Terms and
Conditions) shall apply to the provision of all goods
and/or Services provided by us to you. These Terms and
Conditions are the Terms and Conditions
referred to in any correspondence with you or referred to in the
Temporary Security Services Form
or any other form, quotation, invoice or confirmation of request for
services. We reserve the
right to amend the Terms and Conditions from time to time by written notice to you.
Your
continued use of the Services will be deemed acceptance of such amended Terms and Conditions
and
such amended Terms and Conditions will replace any previous arrangements or understandings
between you
and CROWN Security.
2.2. Acceptance: If:
(a) we accept a request for goods
and/or Services from you; and/or
(b) you complete a Temporary Security Services Form and we
accept that form; and/or
(c) you accept a quote for goods and/or Services to be provided by
us,
that shall constitute acceptance of these Terms and Conditions and such request, quote or
Temporary Security
Services Form (as applicable) together with these Terms and Conditions shall
constitute the agreement
between you and us (the Agreement). Any variations or additions to the
Agreement not expressly agreed in
writing by us are expressly rejected by us.
3. SECURITY
SERVICES
3.1. Services: We will provide to you the goods and/or Services specified in the
Temporary Security Services Form (or,
where the Agreement arises by way of a quotation or
confirmation of request for Services, such quotation or
confirmation of request for Services) and
such further ancillary Services requested by you from time to time
(including any request for us
to deploy security guards to your Premises at any unscheduled time), provided that:
(a) no
security guard may be requested to provide Services to you for anything less than a four
hour
unbroken period;
(b) no security guard will be deployed to your Premises unless a start
and end time for the deployment has
been agreed;
(c) once we have agreed to deploy a security
guard to your Premises, that deployment may not be cancelled
by you unless you provide us with
notice in writing of the cancellation:
(i) in the case of Casual Services, at least four hours
prior to the commencement of the deployment
(and if you provide less than four hours’ notice, you
shall be charged for all the scheduled hours of
the deployment notwithstanding that such
deployment may no longer be required and/or not occur);
and
(ii) in the case of Permanent
Services, at least 30 days’ prior to the commencement of the last
deployment (and if you provide
less than 30 days’ notice, you shall be charged for all the scheduled
hours of the deployment
notwithstanding that such deployment may no longer be required and/or not
occur);
(d) we shall
determine, in our sole discretion, the manner and means by which the Services are performed.
3.2.
Mobile Patrol Services: Where the Services include a requirement for us to provide mobile patrol
services, we do
not guarantee any particular number or frequency of patrols of your Premises. Any
agreement to provide a certain
number of patrols to your Premises within a specific period is
subject to the following:
(a) the timing of those patrols shall be selected randomly by us and
could be at any time during such period;
and
(b) to the extent we provide less than the agreed
number of patrols within that period we can make up the
shortfall by providing an increased
number of patrols in any subsequent period.
3.3. Alarm Monitoring Supplier: You agree we can
accept instructions to supply goods and/or Services to you from
your authorised alarm monitoring
supplier on your behalf.
4. CHARGES
4.1. Fees:
(a) You shall pay us the Charges for
providing the Services from the Commencement Date.
(b) The Charges for providing the Services are
calculated on a time and materials basis and any Charges
expressed in the Temporary Security
Services Form (or, where the Agreement arises by way a quotation
or confirmation of request for
Services, such quotation or confirmation of request for Services) are not a
fixed fee but an
estimate only of the time and materials required to provide any Service and shall be
subject to
amendment to reflect the actual cost to us to provide the Services calculated in accordance
with
the applicable Charge.
(c) Where the Charges include provision for a reoccurring fee
(e.g. a monthly mobile patrol fee), you shall be charged
the applicable fee each time such fee is
incurred during the relevant period.
(d) All Charges exclude GST (and other applicable taxes) and
any payments required by you shall be
increased by the amount of any GST chargeable on any
taxable supply under the Agreement (and other
applicable taxes).
4.2. Payment:
(a) We will
submit a valid tax invoice to you in respect of all Services provided by us. Payment for all
Services
is to be made by automatic bank transfer to the bank account notified to you by us from
time to time, on or
before the 20th day (or, if the 20th day is not a Business Day, on the next
Business Day) of the month
following the provision of the relevant Services. You must make
payment of all amounts under the
Agreement without set off, deduction or withholding of any
kind.
(b) If you dispute any portion of any amount appearing as payable on any invoice issued by
us under the
Agreement, you shall pay the applicable invoice in full and will promptly notify us
of that dispute and we
will attempt to promptly resolve the dispute between us.
4.3. Default
interest: If you default for any reason in payment of any amount on the due date (time being
strictly of the
essence), you shall pay to us on demand, interest at a rate equal to 5% above the
current overdraft rate which we
have with our principal bank, calculated by us on a daily basis
on the amount so unpaid from the due date until
payment. Charging of this interest will not limit
any of our other rights or remedies under these Terms and
Conditions or otherwise in respect of
your default.
4.4. Debt collection: You must pay all costs and expenses (including costs on a
solicitor/client basis and debt
collectors’ costs) we incur in enforcing or attempting to enforce
our rights under this clause and otherwise under
these Terms and Conditions.
4.5. Withholding
Services: You agree that we may withhold the further supply of Services in the event that you
default
on your obligations under this clause 4.
4.6. Variation of charges:
(b) Subject to,
and without limiting, clause 3.7(b), the Charges shall be reviewed and varied by us on
each
anniversary of the date of this Agreement as follows:
(i) we shall be permitted to
increase the Charges by a percentage amount equal to the percentage
increase in the Labour Cost
Index (Salary and Wage Rates) published by Statistics New Zealand (or
any replacement index) over
the preceding 12 month period;
(ii) we shall be permitted to increase the Charges by a percentage
amount equal to the percentage
increase in the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) published by
Statistics New Zealand (or any
replacement index) over the preceding 12 month period;
(iii) we
shall notify you of all variations in writing; and
(iv) such variations shall be effective from
the anniversary of the date of this Agreement or such later
date determined by us.
(c)
Notwithstanding anything in clause 4.1 or the Temporary Security Services Form (or, where
the
Agreement arises by way of a quotation or confirmation of request for Services, in such
quotation or
confirmation of request for Services), we may adjust the charges at any time by an
amount that we in our
sole discretion determine is necessary to take account of any alterations
you may make to the Premises
or other factors which affect the cost to us of providing the
Services, including, but not limited to:
(i) increased wages (including, but not limited to,
as a result of increases in the Minimum Wage Rates
and the flow-on effect such increases have on
wages for our employees regardless of whether such
employees are on the Minimum Wage Rates or
not);
(ii) Union Awards;
(iii) increased contractor costs;
(iv) increased fuel
costs;
(v) increased equipment and equipment maintenance costs; and
(vi) legislative changes
(including in relation to the holidays and other benefits to our employees
and/or
contractors).
(vii) in the case of Services that are mobile patrol services, where
there is a change that affects our ability
to leverage economies of scale to provide the mobile
patrol services at the Charges agreed
(including, but not limited to, as a result of any decrease
in mobile patrol services provided to
customers other than you within the area/s in which your
Premises are located).
Any such variation to the Charges in accordance with this clause 4.6(c)
shall be effective from the date we
specify by notice in writing to you.
4.7. Additional
charges: If one of our security guards providing Services to you is required to attend the Premises
for
any length of time at your request or in response to an incident, or if you otherwise request
us to carry out
additional Services, such additional time incurred and/or additional Services
provided shall be subject to the terms
of these Terms and Conditions and the Charges payable by
you for such additional time and/or Services shall be
based on our standard rates at the time,
plus in all cases the amount of any GST or other applicable tax.
5. TERM AND TERMINATION
5.1.
Term: The Agreement shall commence on the Commencement Date specified in the Temporary Security
Services
Form (or, where the Agreement arises by way of a quotation or confirmation of request
for Services, in such
quotation or confirmation of request for Services) and, unless terminated
earlier in accordance with clause 5.2 or
5.3, continue until:
(a) in the case of Casual
Services, you provide us with at least four hours’ notice that you no longer require
the
Services; or
(b) in the case of Permanent Services, you provide us with at least 30 days’ notice
that you no longer require
the Services.
5.2. Early termination: We may terminate the
Agreement with immediate effect if you:
(a) breach, or fail to perform properly or promptly any
material obligation that you have under the Agreement,
and, where that breach or failure to
perform is capable of remedy, fail to remedy the breach or perform the
obligation within 10
Business Days after receiving written notice (inclusive of the date of receipt) from eh
us of
such breach or failure and requiring remedy (and for the avoidance of doubt, any failure by you
to
make any payment to us under this Agreement on its due date shall be deemed to be a material
breach of
this Agreement);
(b) are, become, or are deemed to be bankrupt or insolvent or any
resolution is passed, or any proceeding is
commenced, for your liquidation (whether voluntarily
or otherwise);
(c) make an assignment for the benefit of, or enter into or make any arrangement
or composition with, your
creditors or are unable (or deemed to be unable) to pay your debts as
they fall due;
(d) go into receivership or have a receiver, trustee, administrator or manager (or
any of them) (including a
statutory manager) appointed in respect of all your property; or
(e)
a material change occurs in your ownership or control which, in our reasonable opinion adversely
affects
our rights or your ability to perform your obligations under the Agreement or is
otherwise contrary to our
interests (for the purposes of this clause, “control” means having the
power to alter the management and
direction of a person or any person controlling that
person).
5.3. Termination on notice: We may terminate the Agreement, at any time and for any
reason, by giving you at least:
(a) in the case of Casual Services, four hours’ notice in
writing; or
(b) in the case of Permanent Services, 30 days’ notice in writing.
5.4.
Consequences of termination: The termination of the Agreement shall be without prejudice to any
rights,
remedies or obligations accrued under these Terms and Conditions prior to termination or
expiration and nothing in
the Agreement shall prejudice our right to recover any amount
outstanding at such termination or expiry. On expiry
or termination of the Agreement for whatever
reason all monies owed by you to us will be due and payable
immediately.
6. AUTHORITY
6.1.
Access to Premises: Entry into the Agreement by you grants us full authority to access the Premises
for the
purposes of carrying out the Services and generally protecting your business, property
and persons. Where the
Services are to be provided outside your normal business hours, you shall
supply us with such keys and access
cards as are necessary to enable us to access the Premises to
carry out the Services.
6.2. Authority to take reasonable steps: If we become aware of a security
issue that may impact on you or the
Premises, and we are unable to contact you to obtain
instructions, we are authorised to take reasonable steps to
protect the integrity, safety and
security of the Premises, property and personnel, at your expense.
6.3. Notification: You shall
notify us immediately if any changes are made to the access ways, and/or locks, at
the
Premises.
6.4. Contact person: Without limiting the other persons that bind you, the
contact person requesting services on your
behalf has the full authority to bind you in all
matters connected with the Agreement.
7. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
7.1. Your
representation: You represent and warrant to us that:
(a) you have obtained all authorisations
and have done all things necessary in order to enter into the
Agreement and to perform your
obligations under the Agreement;
(b) you are not aware of anything which will, or might be
reasonably expected to, prevent or impair you from
performing your obligations under the
Agreement, in the manner and at the times contemplated by these
Terms and Conditions; and
(c)
you have not relied on any representation made by us which has not been expressly stated in
these
Terms and Conditions and, without limitation, you acknowledge that we have not represented
to you that
by entering into the Agreement, or by receiving the Services from us, you, your
Premises and/or your
other property shall be safe from unlawful entry, loss, damage or
injury.
7.2. Our representation: We represent and warrant to you that we have the expertise,
experience, resources, capacity
and ability to, and will, perform the Services in a timely
manner, efficiently, diligently and in accordance with these
Terms and Conditions.
7.3.
Consumer Guarantees Act / Fair Trading Act:
(a) Subject to clause 7.3(b), where the Consumer
Guarantees Act 1993 and/or the Fair Trading Act 1986
apply nothing in these Terms and Conditions
shall contract out of or limit the application of those Acts.
(b) If the Services are acquired by
you for business purposes and you are “in trade” within the meaning of the
Fair Trading Act 1986
or the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 (as the case may be), you agree that the
Consumer Guarantees
Act 1993 does not apply to the Agreement in respect of the Services.
(c) Where you are in trade
and accordingly clause 7.3(b) applies, you acknowledge that the effectiveness of
contracting out
of the Acts is subject to compliance with the statutory tests including that it is fair
and
reasonable that you be bound by those terms.
(d) Where we are supplying goods and services
to you other than as a customer that is in trade the provisions
of clauses 7.3(b) and 7.3(c)
above will have no effect and the provisions of the Consumer Guarantees Act
1993 and the full
provisions of the Fair Trading Act 1986 will apply and these Terms and Conditions shall
be read
subject to the provisions of the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and the full provisions of the
Fair
Trading Act 1986.
7.4. Occupational health and safety:
(a) You warrant that the
Premises are safe and free from harmful materials, infections or building diseases, or
any
environmental matters or issues, and any other materials, that could be harmful to one or more of
our
employees and/or contractors.
(b) Without limiting our obligations to consult and
cooperate with you as a person conducting a business
undertaking (as that term is defined in the
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015) in accordance with the
Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, it
is your responsibility to notify us of any hazards on or around the
Premises and to advise us of
any special safety procedures we need to follow when providing the
Services.
7.5. No
guaranteed response times: Where we provide you with alarm response services under the Agreement we
do
not guarantee that we will respond to an alarm and attend the relevant Premises within any
particular timeframe.
Our only obligation in responding to an alarm is to secure the relevant
Premises upon arrival.
7.6. Continuous Warranties: The representations and warranties in this
clause 7 will be deemed repeated
continuously, by the party giving the representation and
warranty, during the term of the Agreement.
8. LIMITATION ON OUR LIABILITY AND YOUR
INDEMNITY
8.1. Liability: To the fullest extent permitted by law, we shall not be liable for any
loss of profits or any consequential,
indirect or special loss, damage or injury of any kind
suffered or incurred by you arising directly or indirectly from
the performance or
non-performance of our obligations under the Agreement (including, but not limited to, a
failure
to meet any service level agreed to for the purposes of the Agreement), any breach of our
obligations under or in
connection with the Agreement or from any negligence, misrepresentation
or other act or omission on our part or
the part of our employees, agents or contractors.
8.2.
Maximum liability: Notwithstanding anything else in the Agreement, our liability, whether in
contract or pursuant to
any cancellation of the Agreement or in tort or otherwise, in respect of
all claims for costs, loss, damage or injury
arising from breach of any of our obligations
arising under or in connection with the Agreement, from any
cancellation of the Agreement or from
any negligence, misrepresentation or other act or omission on our part, or
the part of our
employees, agents or contractors, shall not exceed:
(a) the daily charge paid by you to us where
your claim relates to mobile patrol services;
(b) the call out fee for an alarm response where
your claim relates to alarm response services; and
(c) $500 where your claim relates to static
guard services,
in respect of one event (or a series of failures arising from the same event). To
the maximum extent permitted by
law, our aggregate maximum liability to you, whether in contract,
tort or under any other legal theory howsoever
arising under the Agreement is limited to the
lesser of $10,000 or the total fees paid by you in the month
immediately preceding the event
giving rise to a claim under this Agreement.
8.3. Acts of employees and contractors:
Notwithstanding anything else in this Agreement, we shall in no
circumstances have any liability
for any wilful, reckless or deliberate acts or omissions of our employees or
contractors
(including any burglary, theft, arson, or wilful damage) in each case in the course of performance,
or
otherwise in any way arising out, of the Services unless such act or omission could have been
prevented by
reasonable supervision of such employees or contractors on our part.
8.4. Claims:
We shall not be liable to you with respect of any matter whatsoever unless notice in writing of any
claim is
received by us within seven Business Days of the occurrence of the event or default in
respect of which your claim
arises (time being of the essence). Any notice shall state full
details of the claim.
8.5. Indemnity: You shall keep us indemnified at all times against any
loss, damage or injury we suffer or incur as a
result of your breaches of the Agreement or
arising from claims made against us by any third party with respect to
any theft, loss, damage,
destruction, death or injury occurring in or on the Premises arising out of, or in any way
in
relation to, the provision of, or failure to provide, the Services.
8.6. Third Parties: All
provisions of these Terms and Conditions which limit or exclude our liability shall be for
the
benefit of and enforceable by each of our employees, agents and contractors, and the
provisions of Subpart 1
(Contractual Privity) of Part 2 of the Contract and Commercial Law Act
2017 will apply accordingly.
8.7. Insurance: Our liability under the Agreement is limited.
Accordingly, you are responsible for arranging appropriate
insurance for any loss, damage or
injury that may arise to you, your Premises and your other property as a result of
our
performance or non-performance under the Agreement.
8.8. Continue Following Termination: This
clause will continue to have effect after termination or expiration of the
Agreement.
9.
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR
9.1. Independent Contractor Status: You acknowledge and agree that we are
engaged under this Agreement as an
independent contractor and nothing express or implied in this
Agreement will be construed as constituting either
party as the partner, agent, employee, officer
or representative of, or as a joint venture with you and neither party
will make any contrary
representation to any other person.
10. GUARANTOR
10.1. Guarantee: Each Guarantor
unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees to us the due and punctual performance
by you of all
your obligations under the Agreement (including, but not limited to, the due and punctual payment
of
all moneys which are now or may in the future be owing or remain unpaid by you). The liability
of each Guarantor
under this guarantee constitutes a principal obligation of each Guarantor and
such liability shall not be relieved, or
in any way affected in a manner prejudicial to us, by
the granting of time, waiver or forbearance to sue by us or by
any other act, omission, matter,
circumstance or law whereby each Guarantor as a surety only would, but for the
provisions of this
clause, have been released from liability.
11. INFORMATION AND PRIVACY ACT
11.1.
Authorisations: For the purpose of facilitating the administration and efficient running of our
business, the
Customer and the Guarantors authorise us:
(a) to collect all information, we may
require from any third parties and authorise those third parties to release
that information to
us;
(b) to hold all information given by you or any third parties to us; and
(c) to use that
information, including giving information to any other person (including any other
credit
provider or any credit reporting agency), for the purpose of assessing the Customer’s
and/or the
Guarantors’ creditworthiness, to facilitate the collection of debts from you and/or
the Guarantors, and for
marketing products and services to the Customer and/or the
Guarantor.
11.2. Conditions: The information will be collected, held and used on the condition
that:
(a) it will be held securely at our registered office and in our electronic debt collection
system (IODM);
(b) it will be accessible to any of our employees and agents who need access to it
for the efficient running of
our business; and
(c) you may request access to and correction of
it at any time.
11.3. Privacy Act 1993: Where the Customer and/or any Guarantor is an individual,
the authorities under clause 11.1 are
authorities or consents for the purposes of the Privacy Act
1993.
12. GENERAL
12.1. Circumstances beyond our control: Notwithstanding any other provision
of these Terms and Conditions, nonperformance
by us of our obligations under the Agreement shall
be excused, without liability for non- performance,
during the time and to the extent that such
performance is prevented, wholly or partly, by any act of God, fire,
earthquake, storm, flood,
landslide, strike, lockout, work stoppage or other labour hindrance, explosion or public
mains
electrical supply failure, sabotage, riot, civil disturbance, national emergency, terrorism, act of
war or any
other cause beyond our reasonable control.
12.2. Subcontracting: We may allow a
contractor to carry out all or any of our obligations under the Agreement without
your
consent.
12.3. Entire Agreement: The Agreement contains all the terms of our agreement with you
and all other terms, conditions
and warranties are expressly excluded. There has been no
representation made by either party to the other except
as expressly set out in these Terms and
Conditions.
12.4. Severability: If any part of these Terms and Conditions is held by any court or
administrative body of competent
jurisdiction to be illegal, void or unenforceable such
determination shall not impair the enforceability of the
remaining parts of these Terms and
Conditions which shall remain in full force.
12.5. No waiver: No waiver of any breach, or
failure to enforce any provision, of these Terms and Conditions at any time
by us shall in any
way affect, limit or waive our right thereafter to enforce and compel strict compliance with
the
provisions of these Terms and Conditions.
12.6. Confidentiality: You shall at all times
keep confidential, treat as privileged, and not directly or indirectly make, or
allow any
disclosure or use to be made of, the subject matter, or any provision of, the Agreement or
any
information relating to any provision, or the subject matter, of the Agreement, or any
information directly or
indirectly obtained from us under or in connection with the
Agreement.
12.7. Notices: Where we are required to give you notice we will do that by one or more
of the following means:
(a) personal delivery;
(b) phone call;
(c) electronic mail;
or
(d) facsimile transmission,
to the addresses obtained by us unless you notify us otherwise
in writing. We are entitled to assume our notices
have been received by you on the day it was
personally delivered or message left on the number you provide us; it
was transmitted to your
email or facsimile address.
12.8. Governing law: The Agreement will be governed by, and construed
in accordance with the laws of New Zealand.
The parties irrevocably submit to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the Courts of New Zealand with respect to any legal
action, suit or proceeding or
any other matter arising out of or in connection with the Agreement.