Terms of Marquee Hire

1. DEFINITION 'The Company' means Chelsea Hire, their subcontractors and agents. 'The Hirer' means the person or persons hiring equipment from the company. 'Equipment' means : marquees, tents, tarpaulins, chairs, tables, boarded floors, matting, awning, flags and bunting, decorations, cooking equipment, crockery, cutlery, table linen together with ropes and pegs, etc. ordinarily used in the support of any of the articles previously mentioned.

2. SITE Our Quotation is based on the assumption (a) that the site is served by a firm access road with adequate hard standing, and that the site is firm, level, free from flooding, trees, ground and overhead obstructions, and without buried pipes or other concealed services which might suffer damage occasioned by transport, erection, use or dismantling of the equipment, or entail any extra labour, (b) that the hirer will be solely responsible for all damages to the surface and cultivations of the site as occasioned above. If any of these assumptions is incorrect then (unless the hirer shall so inform the company promptly after the receipt of the quotation, in which event this quotation is withdrawn through the company will be glad to inspect a fresh one) the company will charge and the hirer will pay in addition to the quoted price all ensuing loses, additional costs and liabilities.

3. PERIOD OF HIRE The period of hire is understood to mean the period for which the tentage or equipment is required to be ready for use.

4. POSITION OF EQUIPMENT In reasonable time before the company erects any of the equipment, the hirer shall inform the company where on the site the equipment is to be erected. In the absence of such information the company shall be at liberty to erect the equipment in what position the company sees fit. If thereafter the hirer required the company to erect the equipment in a different position on the site, the company may accordingly re-erect the equipment if there is reasonable time in which to-do so before the period of hire commences and the company shall charge to the hirer the reasonable cost of so doing. We reserve the right also to erect tents to any size near to that order.

5. LOSS OR DAMAGE From the time when the company has completed the erection of the equipment until either the time when the company has dismantled it, or until 48 hours after the end of the period of the hire, whichever shall be the shorter space of time, the hirer shall be responsible for the safety of the equipment and shall make good to the company any loss of, and damage to the equipment how so ever and by whom so ever caused except where such loss or damage is the consequence of defective materials or workmanship, or is the consequence of storm or tempest or of fire, provided is not caused by the willful or negligent act or omission of the hirer, his servants, licenses or agents.

6. FRUSTRATION Although the company will use its best endeavors to fulfill every contract, performance of the contract is subject to variation or cancellation by the company in consequence of trade disputes, fir, act of God, war, civil emergencies, break down, failure or restrictions on the use of transport, fuel or power, requisitioning or any other cause beyond the reasonable expectation or control of the company.

7. ERECTION AND DISMANTLING The Company normally provides labour for the erection and dismantling and the cost thereof is included in the hire charge. Only in exceptional circumstances and by special arrangement will the company allow the hirer to erect and/or dismantle the companyÕs property. Removal will be effected as soon as possible but all equipment cannot be collected immediately after use from all sites. Hire charges do not include attendance nor the service of watchman and the safe custody of all equipment will be the hirers responsibility until collected. 

8. MODIFICATIONS No representations or arrangements whenever or however made shall in any way modify this quotation nor these general conditions which shall be modified by a supplementary written contract expressed to be made for that purpose. 

9. TERMINATION The hirer shall be at liberty to terminate the contract by notice in writing to the company not less than 14 days before the start of the period of hire on payment to the company by way of agreed damages of a proportion of the quoted total cost of hire depending on the length of notice of termination so given to the company namely one half if the notice of termination is so given less than 28 days before the start of the hire period and one quarter if so given more than 28 days before such start. If the hirer otherwise terminates the contract he shall be liable to pay to the company the whole of the total cost of the hire. In ever case termination on reasonable grounds and on adequate notice but without prejudice to its own rights under this clause, the company will sympathetically consider any fair and reasonable request put forward from the hirer to mitigate the sum otherwise here under due to the company. 

10. not withstanding the exemption contained within condition 5 the hirer shall indemnify the company against all loss or damage to the equipment (including loss or damage resulting from hire) resulting from willful or malicious act or acts or a third party

Note: these terms and conditions are assumed as accepted unless Chelsea Hire is immediately informed otherwise in writing. Full hire terms are available on request and are subject to change by Chelsea Hire at any time. All goods charged at the price ruling at the time of invoice. Payment by cheque MUST be received at least 10 working days before the function