Material failure to comply with Direction 63

Federal Court. Paragraph 116(1)(g) provided that the Minister may cancel a visa if "a prescribed ground for cancelling a visa applies to the holder". Reg 2.43(1)(p)(ii) prescribed the following ground: "in the case of the holder of a Subclass 050 ... or ... 051 ... visa - that the Minister is satisfied that the holder ... has been charged with an offence against a law of the Commonwealth, a State, a Territory or another country". Does a material failure to comply with Direction 63, issued under s 499, lead to jurisdictional error?

The Federal Court answered that question as follows:

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