Jersey Harbours and Jersey Airport: Terms of Credit

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[THIS DECISION SUPERSEDES MD-E-2007-0024] A decision made on 22 December 2011:

Decision Reference: MD-E-2011-0209
Decision Summary Title :	DS - Terms of Credit		Date of Decision Summary:	19 December 2011
Decision Summary Author:	Group Finance and Business Resources Director		Decision Summary: Public or Exempt? (State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)	Public
Type of Report: Oral or Written?	Written		Person Giving Oral Report:	N/A
Written Report Title :	WR - Jersey Harbours & Jersey Airport Terms of Credit		Date of Written Report:	19 December 2011
Written Report Author:	Group Finance and Business Resource Director		Written Report : Public or Exempt? (State clauses from Code of Practice booklet)	Public
Subject: Jersey Harbours and Jersey Airport Terms of Credit
Decision(s): The Minister approved the Terms of Credit for Jersey Harbours and Jersey Airport as proposed (attached). These replace the Terms of Credit approved by MD-E-2007-0024.
Reason(s) for Decision: A consistent Terms of Credit policy should be applied to customers of both Jersey Harbours and Jersey Airport.
Resource Implications: There are no resource implications
Action required: For the Group Commercial Director to communicate the revised terms with all customers.
Signature:		Position: Minister - Economic Development
Date Signed:		Date of Decision (If different from Date Signed):

Jersey Harbours and Jersey Airport: Terms of Credit

Jersey Harbours & Jersey Airport: Terms of Credit

Invoices will be rendered monthly and must be settled within a period of 30 days following the date of the invoice. The invoice must be made in full and any incorrect charge or other error must be notified to:

The Credit Controller, Finance Department, Jersey Harbours, Maritime House, La Route du Port Elizabeth, St Helier, Jersey, JE1 1HB. Telephone 01534 447711, Fax 01534 447797

The Credit Controller, Finance Department, Jersey Airport, St Peter, Jersey, JE1 1BY. Telephone 01534 446299, Fax 01534 446297

Where any discrepancies are verified, these will be dealt with by the Finance Department by issuing the relevant invoice or credit note, as appropriate.

Settlement of invoices may be made by:
- Direct Debit
- Cheques – made payable to ‘The Treasurer of the States’ and forwarded to the Credit Controller
- Credit Card – payment can be made over the telephone to the Finance Department.
- BACS Transfer – bank details may be obtained from the Credit Controller. All charges relating to BACS transfers must be borne by the payer

GST at the appropriate rate will be applied where applicable.

Where an invoice remains unpaid beyond the period of credit granted, Jersey Harbours / Jersey Airport reserve the right to charge interest at a rate of 0.75% a month on the charges outstanding for late payments, with a minimum charge of £5.

Jersey Harbours / Jersey Airport will make an administration charge of £25 for each occurrence of the following events:

Cheques that are returned unpaid by the bank marked ‘refer to drawer’
Direct debit payments that are refused by the paying bank owing to insufficient funds

If accounts are not fully paid within the prescribed period, Jersey Harbours / Jersey Airport reserve the right to revert to cash payments without further notice and / or seek recovery of the outstanding amount through recourse to the relevant courts. If Jersey Harbours / Jersey Airport has to commence legal proceedings to recover amounts owed the Customer will be liable for a legal recovery administration charge of £125 plus legal fees and court costs

When any monthly credit facilities have been withdrawn, they may only be reinstated upon receipt of a deposit equivalent to the highest monthly account during the preceding twelve month period or other such sum as may be determined by the Accounting Officer, Jersey Harbours / Jersey Airport.

If there has been no activity on a credit account for a continuous period of twelve months, the account will lapse and a fresh application will have to be made if it is decided to reactivate the account by the company concerned.

Jersey Harbours / Jersey Airport reserve the right to alter, suspend, cancel or otherwise vary these conditions at any time. The current version of the terms and conditions shall be those that are available on the website: www.portofjersey.je.

For the avoidance of doubt, these Terms of Credit supersede any previous Terms of Credit and in the event of conflict between the provisions of these Terms of Credit and contents of any other agreement entered into by or on behalf of Jersey Harbours or Jersey Airport, the provisions of these Terms of Credit shall prevail.