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ADM.14:4.4 - Provide an intelligible response for each consequential outcome

Specify what the handler or mechanism returns when the condition is satisfied, contradicted, unsupported, inapplicable or currently uncheckable. Use only the distinctions that change action, but preserve those distinctions through the actual interface.

For each failure or uncertainty, name the permitted correction, competent review, existing alternative or reasoned refusal. A technical block should affect the dependent action; it need not cancel an unrelated permitted inquiry or evidence-recovery request.

Connect the returned reason to the source and condition the participant can act on. “Rejected by validation” is insufficient when the participant needs to correct a specific mismatch or challenge the relevant rule. ADM.6–8 supply the case-level resolution, check and permission uses.