Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts(1) For the purposes of a law of the Territory, unless otherwise agreed between the purported originator and the addressee of an electronic communication, the purported originator of the electronic communication is bound by the communication only if the communication was sent by, or with the authority of, the purported originator.
(2) Subsection (1) does not affect the operation of a law of the Territory that makes provision for:
(a) conduct engaged in by a person within the scope of the person's actual or apparent authority to be attributed to another person; or
(b) a person to be bound by conduct engaged in by another person within the scope of the other person's actual or apparent authority.