Terms & Conditions for the JLA Auction
1. Notice and Conditions of Sale
1.1. This Notice and Conditions of Sale applies to all sales at the JLA auction
1.2. While every care has been taken in the preparation of catalogues, any statement as to authorship, attribution, origin, date, age, provenance and condition is a statement of opinion and is not to be taken as a statement or representation of fact. The Jersey Lifeboat Association reserve the right, in forming their opinion, to consult and rely upon any expert or authority considered by them to be reliable.
1.4. The Jersey Lifeboat Association reserve the right at their absolute discretion to refuse admission to their premises or attendance at their sales, without giving any reason therefore.
2. Conditions of Sale
2.1 Definitions
2.1.1 In these Conditions: “the hammer price” means the price at which any lot is knocked down to the buyer; “Total amount due” means the hammer price
2.2 Conduct of the Sale
2.2.1 The seller of any lot shall be entitled to place a reserve on such lot. Neither the seller on his own behalf, nor any other person on the seller’s behalf except the auctioneer, may make any bid in respect of lots of which the seller is the owner.
2.2.2. The auctioneer has the right to advance the bidding at his absolute discretion and may refuse to accept any bid, divide any lot, combine any two or more lots, withdraw any lots from the sale and vary the order in which lots are offered for sale without in any case giving previous notice or any reason therefore.
2.2.3. The Jersey Lifeboat Association act as agents only.
2.2.4. The Jersey Lifeboat Association accepts no responsibility to anyone in connection with the commissioning by intending buyers of any of their employees to bid for lots on behalf of such intending buyers.
3. Purchase, Risk, Title and Aggregate Price
3.1. The highest bidder acceptable to the auctioneer prior to the fall of the hammer shall be the buyer, but if, during or after the sale of the lot, but before the end of the sale as a whole, the auctioneer considers, at his absolute discretion, that a dispute has arisen or that the buyer has not complied satisfactorily with any condition or that there is any other reason for so doing, he may at his absolute discretion, put up the lot again for sale. Every bidder shall be deemed to act as principal unless there is in force a written acknowledgement by The Jersey Lifeboat Association that they act as agent on behalf of a named principal.
3.2. At the fall of the hammer, risk of the lot sold shall pass to the buyer, and none of the seller, The Jersey Lifeboat Association, their servants or agents shall be responsible for any loss or damage whether caused by negligence or otherwise, but ownership of such lot shall not pass until payment in respect thereof has been made in accordance with condition 4.
3.3. On the fall of the hammer in respect of each lot sold the buyer shall, if so required by The Jersey Lifeboat Association, forthwith give his name and permanent address to the auctioneer or his assistant together with his bank or other suitable references, and any such other proof of his identity as The Jersey Lifeboat Association may at their absolute discretion require.
3.4. The buyer may be required to pay down forthwith the whole or any part of the hammer price, and if he fails to do so any lot or lots bought by him may, at the auctioneer’s absolute discretion, be offered again for resale at any time before the conclusion of the auction.
4. Responsibility to Buyers
4.1. Subject to Condition 6 all lots are sold as shown and neither The Jersey Lifeboat Association nor the seller accept any responsibility for any faults, imperfections or errors of description however caused in or with regard to any lot, and all lots are to be taken and paid for whether genuine and authentic or not. Buyers should satisfy themselves as to the condition of any lot before bidding on it.
4.2. The attention of buyers is drawn to the fact that all statements made and contained in the catalogue or elsewhere in any advertisement or brochure are statements of opinion only and are not to be relied upon as statements or representations of fact.
4.3. Neither The Jersey Lifeboat Association nor the seller makes or gives, neither has The Jersey Lifeboat Association, nor any person employed by The Jersey Lifeboat Association, any authority to make or give, any representation or warranty to any person in respect of any lot, and any conditions or warranties implied by law are hereby excluded.
4.4. The Jersey Lifeboat Association on their own behalf give no guarantee as to the right of any seller to offer any lot for sale, and will not be responsible for any defect in the seller’s title to such lot.
5. Responsibility to Vendors – Collection of Unsold Lots
5.1. The Jersey Lifeboat Association reserve the right to sell any unsold item without reserve price or dispose of any unsold item at their absolute discretion that remains uncollected by the vendor within two weeks of the date of the auction at which it was last offered for sale.
6. Forgeries
6.1. In the event of any lot proving to be a forgery The Jersey Lifeboat Association will, at their absolute discretion and subject to the following Conditions, either rescind the sale of any lot and refund such of the aggregate price has been received by them or repurchase the lot for such sum as shall equal the aggregate price paid for the lot by the buyer, provided that this obligation shall only arise if:
(i) within seven days of the sale of the lot the buyer gives notice in writing to The Jersey Lifeboat Association that the lot purchased by him through The Jersey Lifeboat Association is a forgery (as hereinafter defined); and
(ii) the buyer returns the lot to The Jersey Lifeboat Association in the same condition as it was at the time of the auction accompanied by written proof of forgery, the number of the lot, and the date of auction at which it was purchased; and
(iii) the buyer proves to The Jersey Lifeboat Association’s reasonable satisfaction that the lot is a forgery and that he is able to transfer a good title thereto free from any liens, charges or encumbrances; and
(iv) the buyer demonstrates to The Jersey Lifeboat Association’s’ reasonable satisfaction that the lot alleged by him to be a forgery is the lot actually purchased by him through The Jersey Lifeboat Association.
6.2. A ‘forgery’ means an imitation intended by the maker or any other person to deceive as to authorship, date or provenance, provided that it is not shown to be such in the catalogue description and at the date of the sale had a value materially less than it would have had if it had been in accordance with that description. Notwithstanding the above, the buyer shall have no rights in respect of a forgery (as defined) if;
(i) the catalogue description at the date of the sale was in accordance with the then generally accepted opinion of scholars and experts or fairly indicated that there was a conflict of such opinion; or
it can be established that the lot is a forgery only by means of process not generally accepted for use until after publication of the catalogue.
6.3. The benefit of this Condition shall be personal to the buyer who, for the purpose of this Condition, shall be the person to whom the original invoice is made out by The Jersey Lifeboat Association in respect of the lot sold. The benefit of this Condition shall not be assignable by the buyer.
7. General
7.1. Any claim by a buyer against The Jersey Lifeboat Association whether under any of these Conditions or otherwise arising out of the sale of any lot shall be limited to the amount (if any) paid by the buyer in respect of such lot and shall not extend to any consequential or other loss or damage or expense suffered by the buyer.
7.2. The above conditions and all notices, descriptions, statements and other matters in the catalogue and elsewhere concerning any lot are subject to any statements modifying or affecting the same made by the auctioneer from the rostrum prior to any bid being accepted for the lot.
7.3. Each bidder by the making of any bid acknowledges his acceptance of these Conditions of any Notices and other Conditions in the catalogue.
7.4. The Jersey Lifeboat Association is under no obligation to disclose to any person the identity of either buyer or seller of any lot.
7.5. Each sale and matters connected therewith, including these Conditions, shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Jersey. By taking part in the sale every bidder submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Jersey courts.
7.6 The headings are for convenience only and shall be ignored in construing these Conditions.
7.7. THE JERSEY LIFEBOAT ASSOCIATION ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY WHATSOEVER FOR ANY INJURY, LOSS OR DAMAGE TO ANY PERSON, PERSONS OR ITEMS WHILST ON THE SALE GROUND OR IN THE SALE ROOM.