Invoices and Payment 16.1 Transnet shall pay the Supplier/Service Provider the amounts stipulated in each Purchase Order/Work Order, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
16.2 Transnet shall pay such amounts to the Supplier/Service Provider upon receipt of a valid and undisputed Tax Invoice together with the supporting documentation, as specified in the Schedule of Requirements appended hereto, once the valid and undisputed Tax Invoices or such portions of the Tax Invoices which are valid and undisputed become due and payable to the Supplier/Service Provider for the delivery of the Goods/Services ordered, in terms of clause 16.5 below.
16.3 Transnet may, pending an investigation, withhold any payments to the Supplier/Service Provider, in the case where irregular expenditure has been identified in the particular contract and that there is reasonable suspicion that the Supplier/Service Provider is involved or was aware that the contract transgressed any legislation.
16.4 All Prices set out in this Agreement and the Schedule of Requirements hereto are to be indicated inclusive and exclusive of VAT, which will be payable at the applicable rate in ZAR.
16.5 Unless otherwise provided for in the Schedule of Requirements appended to this Agreement, Tax Invoices shall be submitted together with a month-end statement. Payment against such month-end statement shall be made by Transnet within 30 [thirty] calendar days after date of receipt by Transnet of the Supplier’s/Service Provider’s statement together with the relevant valid and undisputed Tax Invoice(s) and supporting documentation.
16.6 Where the payment of any Tax Invoice, or any part of a Tax Invoice which is not in dispute, is not made in accordance with this clause, the Supplier/Service Provider shall be entitled to charge interest on the outstanding amount, at The Standard Bank of South Africa’s prime rate of interest in force, for the period from the due date of payment until the outstanding amount is paid.
16.7 The Supplier/Service Provider shall remain the owner of all plant, material, machinery, equipment and the like [collectively, the Supplier’s Goods] provided to Transnet until Transnet has paid in full for the Supplier’s Goods, it being specifically agreed that Transnet shall acquire no rights [including liens] of whatsoever nature in such Supplier’s Goods until date of final payment by Transnet. Subject to the aforegoing, all risk and benefit to the Supplier’s Goods shall pass from the Supplier to Transnet on delivery of the Supplier’s Goods by the Supplier to Transnet.
