(1) Unless otherwise agreed between the originator and the addressee of an electronic communication, the originator of an electronic communication is bound by that communication only if the communication was sent by him or her or under his or her authority.
(2) Subsection (1) does not affect the operation of any law in force in Saint Lucia that makes provision for—
(a) the conduct engaged 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.
(3) An electronic communication between an originator and an addressee is deemed to be an electronic communication of the originator if the electronic communication was sent by an information system programmed to operate automatically by or on behalf of the originator.
(4) An addressee shall consider each electronic communication received by him or her as a separate electronic communication and to act on that assumption, except to the extent that such communication is a duplicate of another electronic communication and the addressee knew or should have known, had the addressee exercised reasonable care or used any agreed procedure, that the electronic communication was a duplicate.