Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA ACT 1976 No. 156 of 1976 - SECT 51

51. (1) No proceedings in the Court are invalidated by a formal defect or an
irregularity, unless the Court is of opinion that substantial injustice has
been caused by the defect or irregularity and that the injustice cannot be
remedied by an order of the Court.

(2) The Court or a Judge may, on such conditions (if any) as the Court or
Judge thinks fit, make an order declaring that the proceeding is not invalid
by reason of a defect that it or he considers to be formal, or by reason of an
irregularity.