The phrase "a required formality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is necessary or obligatory, often in a bureaucratic or procedural context.
Example: "Submitting the application is just a required formality before we can proceed with the review process."
Alternatives: "an obligatory procedure" or "a necessary step".
This decision ruled that an authenticated statute should be regarded as the best evidence that the required formalities were observed in its passage, and that the courts would not exercise the power of going behind it and inquiring into the manner of its enactment; and Blessing v. Galveston, 42 Tex.
There are just so many things that can go wrong from the wording of the document, to the required formalities for how it must be signed and witnessed before it can be valid.
There are just so many things that can go wrong--from the wording of the document, to the required formalities for how it must be signed and witnessed before it can be valid.
Contract law seeks to protect parties to an agreement not only by requiring formalities but in many other ways as well.
Huntington Councilman Patrick Brenden said the notice is a formality required to give an intent to withdraw.
One of those autobiographies is still protected by copyright, but the other is already in the public domain because the writer failed to publish it with a copyright notice (sometimes designated as "©"), which was a formality required at the time.
As two frisky cats run back and forth, Romeo raises his hand — a formality required by his mother — and asks to leave the room.
Under Britain's modern conventions of parliamentary government and constitutional monarchy, every order made in Council has been drafted by a Government Department and has already been approved by the responsible Ministers the action taken by the Queen in Council is a mere formality required for the valid adoption of the measure.
There are also problems over who should be able to solemnise a marriage, the content of any ceremony, notice and registration requirements for a marriage, insufficient clarity on the formalities required for a marriage to be valid and how far the rules governing the formation of a civil partnership should be aligned with those for the solemnisation of a marriage.
