61 Pa. Code § 702.2 — Liberal construction

(a) This part shall be liberally construed to secure the just, speedy and inexpensive determination of every proceeding before the Board. The Board, at any stage of a proceeding, may disregard an error or defect of procedure that does not affect the substantive rights of the parties. (b) The Board, at any stage of a proceeding, may waive a requirement of this part, including a deadline, when necessary or appropriate, if the waiver does not adversely affect a substantive right of either party. (c) Subsections (a) and (b) supersede 1 Pa. Code § 31.2 (relating to liberal construction). No part of the information on this site may be reproduced for profit or sold for profit. This material has been drawn directly from the official Pennsylvania Code full text database. Due to the limitations of HTML or differences in display capabilities of different browsers, this version may differ slightly from the official printed version.