Irregularities
25.—(1) Any irregularity resulting from failure to comply with any provision of these Regulations before the Secretary of State has reached her decision shall not of itself render the proceedings void.
(2) Where any such irregularity comes to the attention of the Secretary of State, she may, and must if she considers any person may have been prejudiced by the irregularity, give such directions as she thinks just, before reaching her decision, to cure or waive the irregularity.
(3) Clerical mistakes in any document recording a direction, or a decision of the Secretary of State or in an appointed person’s report, or errors arising in such a document from an accidental slip or omission, may be corrected by the Secretary of State, but, in the case of a report, only with the permission of the appointed person who prepared it.