The term " agency " is sometimes used more broadly, to describe both the position of an agent as representative of a principal to perform juristic acts that affect the principal s legal relations with third parties, and also a relationship of mandate in which an " agent " is bound as mandatary to carry out some task for the principal as mandator.
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Kerr does not think that deeming all independent agents and mandataries ( if that is what is meant in this context by independent contractors ) to be employees either solves, or is a suitable way to solve, the problem . Section 26 of the Act was intended to ensure that all those practising as estate agents had fidelity fund certificates.
