Doctrine of 'Substantial Compliance' and 'Intended use'

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....and "intended use". The relevant portions of the observations are in the following terms - Doctrine of 'Substantial Compliance' and 'Intended use' The doctrine of substantial compliance is a judicial invention, equitable in nature, designed to avoid hardship in cases where a party does all that can reasonably be expected of it, but failed or faulted in some minor or inconsequen....

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....means "actual compliance in respect to the substance essential to every reasonable objective of the statute" and the Court should determine whether the statute has been followed sufficiently so as to carry out the intent of the statute and accomplish the reasonable objectives for which it was passed. A fiscal statute generally seeks to preserve the need to comply strictly with regulatory require....

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....and tangential requirements or requirements that are so confusingly or incorrectly written that an earnest effort at compliance should be accepted. The test for determining the applicability of the substantial compliance doctrine has been the subject of a myriad of cases and quite often, the critical question to be examined is whether the requirements relate to the "substance" or "essence" of th....