27. 'Mandatory' and 'directory' requirements.

(ii)ÌýÌýÌýÌý Procedural Requirements under Statute

Historically, the legal consequence of non-compliance with procedural or formal requirements, where not spelt out in the statute itself, had been regarded as wholly or partly dependent upon the answer to the question whether the requirement is to be classified as 'mandatory' or 'directory'. However, a variety of different meanings have been attached to this distinction1, and it is now less