ADM.13:4.4 - Correct the right thing

Determine whether the defect concerns a description, an absent evidential link, an actual institutional act or missing provision. Select the corresponding authorized correction.

For a mistaken description, preserve enough of the original and correction to support the required historical use. State what was corrected and the effective facts the new account describes. A spelling correction does not constitute another appointment or move its effective date.

If the governing rule makes a registration act constitutive, apply that rule to the actual act and its timing. Editing a descriptive field cannot silently perform the required registration. If payment was not performed, a corrected “paid” field cannot supply it; use ADM.9–10.

A later source may change what can now be established about an earlier event. Preserve both the earlier decision’s actual grounds and the later qualified account. The competent case procedure determines any resulting revision or remedy.