National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009
Note:
See section 3 of the National Credit Act.
PART 12 - MISCELLANEOUS Division 3 - General provisions 199 Conduct of agents and related matters 199(1)The conduct of an officer, agent or employee of a credit provider acting within his or her actual or ostensible authority will be imputed to the credit provider and taken to be conduct of the credit provider.
199(2)
A person cannot authorise a credit provider, or a person associated with a credit provider, to enter into a credit contract, mortgage or guarantee on the person ' s behalf. This subsection does not prevent a credit provider from authorising a person associated with the credit provider to enter into a credit contract on behalf of the credit provider.
199(3)
A credit provider or person associated with a credit provider that purports to act as agent of a debtor, mortgagor or a guarantor in entering into a credit contract or a mortgage or guarantee commits an offence.
Criminal penalty: 50 penalty units.
199(4)
A credit provider is not, for the purposes of this Code, taken to know or have reason to believe something because an officer, agent or employee of the credit provider does so, unless the knowledge or reason to believe that thing is acquired by the officer, agent or employee acting in that capacity and in connection with the transaction concerned.
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