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Paragraph 8 Presumption of authority

Where—

(a)

a person who is authorised under a network access agreement to do so uses the network for the making of a disposition or contract, and

(b)

the document which purports to effect the disposition or to be the contract—

(i)

purports to be authenticated by him as agent, and

(ii)

contains a statement to the effect that he is acting under the authority of his principal,

he shall be deemed, in favour of any other party, to be so acting.