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Section 162: Rights when agent's principal not disclosed

162.Right of parties to contract made by agent not disclosed

(1)Where an agent enters into a contract with a person who does not know or does not have reason to believe, that he or she is an agent, the principal may require the performance of the contract; but the other contracting party shall have, as against the principal, the same rights as he or she would have had against the agent, if the agent had been the principal.

(2)Where a principal discloses himself or herself before a contract is completed, the other contracting party may refuse to fulfil the contract, where that other contracting party can show that he or she would not have entered into the contract—

(a)if he or she had known who the principal in the contract was; or

(b)if he or she had known that the agent was not a principal.

Plain English Summary

If you enter into a contract with someone who is actually an agent for another person (the principal), and you did not know or have reason to suspect ...

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