The section 49 in the Contract Law of PRC provides the apparent agency. Although without demand of the existence of the principal' s negligence in constitutive requirements, the connection between the behavior of the principal and the false appearance of the agent authority should be required. Meanwhile, this section regulates "counterparty' s reasonable belief" which is defined that the eounterparty should believe with good faith but non-negligence. The false appearance of the agency authority would be resulted from not only active behaviors of the principal but also negative activities. The legal effect of the apparent agency is that the agent activity is effective to the third party which is equivalent to that the principal should not argue the effect of this agent activity.%《合同法》第49条规定的表见代理，在构成要件上虽然无须被代理人存在过失，但须有被代理人的行为与代理权的外观假象之间存在关联性，同时该条规定的“相对人有理由相信”是指相对人善意且无过失。代理权的外观假象既可以是被代理人的积极行为引发，也可以是消极行为引发。表见代理的法律效果是“该代理行为对第三人有效”，被代理人不得主动主张该代理行为的效力。
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