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Contact Details
Horse Details
Pickup From:
Deliver To:
Method of Payment:
A FRIENDLY NOTABLE STAFF
MEMBER WILL CONTACT YOU TO CONFIRM THIS BOOKING
IMPORTANT: All business undertaken is transacted
subject to the Company's general conditions of carriage. All horses are handled
at the owner's risk. Insurance is the owners
responsibility. Gear carried as a courtesy - no responsibility accepted.
Conditions of Cartage
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1. "Carrier" shall mean the Company, the name of which appears
on the face of this document its servants and agents. "Sub-contractor"
shall mean and include:
Railways operated by the Commonwealth or any State;
Any other person, firm or company with whom the carrier may arrange the
carriage of goods the subject of this Contract and any person who is now
or hereafter a servant, agent, employee or sub-contractor thereof;
Any person, firm or company with whom the Carrier may arrange to have the
goods including livestock the subject of any carriage contract stores and/or
agisted and/or liveried and any person who is hereafter a servant agent
employee or sub-contractor thereof.
"Goods shall include livestock of every description.
2. The Carrier is not a common carrier and will accept no liability as
such. All goods are carried or transported including all storage agistment
livery and other services by the Carrier subject only to these conditions
and the Carrier reserves the right to refuse to carry or transport goods
for any person, corporation or company at its absolute discretion.
3. The Consigner hereby authorises the Carrier to arrange with a sub-contractor
for the carriage of any goods the subject of this contract. Any such arrangement
shall be deemed to be ratified by the Consignor upon delivery of the said
goods to such sub-contractor who shall thereupon be entitled to the full
benefit of these terms and conditions to the same extent as the Carrier.
The Consignor hereby expressly agrees and acknowledges that insofar as it
may be necessary to ensure that sub-contractor shall be so entitled the
Carrier shall be deemed to enter into this contract for its own benefit
and also as agent for the sub-contractor.
4. If the consignor instructs the Carrier to use a particular mode of
carriage the Carrier will use its best endeavours to use same provided if
that method or means is unavailable at the date of planned movement then
subject to further instructions from the Consignor, providing he is readily
available to the Carrier, the Carrier shall be entitled to use its discretion
to adopt some alternative method or means and the Consignor shall be deemed
to authorise the Carrier to carry or have the goods carried by such other
method or means.
5. The Consignor hereby authorises any deviation from the usual route
or manner of cartage of goods which may in the absolute discretion of the
carrier be deemed reasonable or necessary in the circumstances.
6. Unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing no responsibility at
law in tort, contract or otherwise (whether or not in any way occasioned
by or due to the negligence of the Carrier) shall be accepted by the Carrier
for any loss, damage, or misdelivery of or failure to deliver or delay in
delivery of goods either in transit, storage, agistment, livery or alteration
or carriage for any reason whatsoever.
7. The Carrier shall not be obliged to insure against any loss of or
damage to, misdelivery of, failure to deliver or delay in delivery of goods.
8. The charges of the Carrier shall be considered earned as soon as the
goods are in the hands of the Carrier, its servants or agents.
9. The Consignor expressly warrants with the Carrier that the Consignor
is either the owner or the authorised agent of the owner of all goods the
subject matter of carriage and by entering into any arrangement to carry
the goods the Consignor expressly accepts these conditions of carriage as
owner or agent of the owner.
10. These conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with
the laws of the State of Western Australia.
11. Notwithstanding anything herein contained, the Carrier shall continue
to the subject to any implied warranty provided by the Trade Practices Act
of 1974 (as amended) if and to the extent that the said act is applicable
to this contract and prevents the exclusion, restriction or modification
of that warranty.