When is an administrative act void?
An administrative act is void when it suffers from a particularly serious defect and confidence in its legality cannot be maintained. Nullity takes effect without a separate act; an obviously incorrect clerical or arithmetic error does not make the act void, it is corrected instead.
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Source
- Source
- Administrative Procedure Act, section 44
- Acts
- Administrative Procedure Act
- Area
- Relations with the administration
- Checked
- 2026-10-03
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