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Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017

Other commercial matters - Mercantile agents - Sales, pledges, and other dispositions by mercantile agents

304: Agreements through employees or other authorised persons

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“Agreements made with a business agent's workers or helpers are the same as deals made with the agent”

When you make an agreement with someone who works for a mercantile agent or someone the agent has allowed to make deals for them, it’s the same as if you made the agreement with the mercantile agent themselves. This applies to agreements about selling or pledging things. It’s important to know that this only counts for people who are allowed to make these kinds of deals as part of their regular job.

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Mercantile agents: Sales, pledges, and other dispositions by mercantile agents

304Agreements through employees or other authorised persons

  1. For the purposes of this subpart, an agreement made with a mercantile agent through an employee or any other person authorised in the ordinary course of business to make contracts of sale or pledge on the mercantile agent’s behalf must be treated as being an agreement with the mercantile agent.

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