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Civil Aviation Act 2023

Monitoring, investigation, and enforcement - General provisions relating to proceedings

386: Conduct of employees and agents attributed

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"When your workers do something, it's like you did it, and you're responsible for their actions."

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If you are a person, and someone who works for you or is acting for you does something, it is like you did it yourself. This is because the law says that what your employees or agents do is also done by you, as long as they are acting within their authority. You are responsible for what they do, even if you did not directly tell them to do it.

If you are not a person, but a company or organisation, the same rule applies. What your employees or agents do is also done by you, as long as they are acting within their authority. This means you are responsible for their actions, even if you did not directly tell them to do it, and it can be found in the Civil Aviation Act for more information.

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Part 9Monitoring, investigation, and enforcement
General provisions relating to proceedings

386Conduct of employees and agents attributed

  1. Conduct engaged in on behalf of an individual (person A) by any of the following must be treated, for the purposes of this Act, as having been engaged in also by person A:

  2. an employee or agent of person A, acting within the employee’s or agent’s actual or apparent authority:
    1. any other person at the direction or with the consent or agreement (whether express or implied) either of person A or an employee or agent of person A, given within the scope of the actual or apparent authority of the employee or agent.

      1. Conduct engaged in on behalf of a person other than an individual (person B) by any of the following must be treated, for the purposes of this Act, as having been engaged in also by person B:

      2. an employee or agent of person B acting within the scope of the employee’s or agent’s actual or apparent authority:
        1. any other person at the direction or with the consent or agreement (whether express or implied) of an employee or agent of person B, given within the scope of the actual or apparent authority of the employee or agent.

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