Section 140

The Judge of the Syariah High Court may, on the application of any person desirous of appealing who may be debarred from so doing upon the ground of his not having observed some formality or some requirement of this Act, permit an appeal upon such terms and with such directions to the Syariah Subordinate Court and to the parties as such Judge shall consider desirable, in order that substantial justice

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may be done in the matter, and may, for the purpose, enlarge any period of time prescribed by subsection 138(1) or (4).