New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ACT 2000 - SECT 14

14 Attribution of electronic communications

(1) For the purposes of a law of this jurisdiction, unless otherwise agreed between the purported originator and the addressee of an electronic communication, the purported originator of the electronic communication is bound by that communication only if the communication was sent by the purported originator or with the authority of the purported originator.

(2) Subsection (1) does not affect the operation of a law of this jurisdiction that makes provision for:

(a) conduct engaged in by a person within the scope of the person’s actual or apparent authority to be attributed to another person, or

(b) a person to be bound by conduct engaged in by another person within the scope of the other person’s actual or apparent authority.

(3) The regulations may provide that this section does not apply to a specified electronic communication or specified class of electronic communications.

(4) The regulations may provide that this section does not apply to a specified law of this jurisdiction.