Rectification of errors permits correction of obvious mistakes within time limits, subject to natural justice. Any authority may rectify errors apparent on the face of record in decisions, orders, notices, certificates or other documents on its own motion or when brought to its notice by an officer appointed under the Act, an officer under the corresponding central Act, or by the affected person, within a limited period; correction of purely clerical or arithmetical errors arising from accidental slip or omission is excepted from the maximum temporal limit, and any rectification adversely affecting a person requires observance of the principles of natural justice.
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Rectification of errors permits correction of obvious mistakes within time limits, subject to natural justice.
Any authority may rectify errors apparent on the face of record in decisions, orders, notices, certificates or other documents on its own motion or when brought to its notice by an officer appointed under the Act, an officer under the corresponding central Act, or by the affected person, within a limited period; correction of purely clerical or arithmetical errors arising from accidental slip or omission is excepted from the maximum temporal limit, and any rectification adversely affecting a person requires observance of the principles of natural justice.
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