ADM.3:5.2 - A late record and a constitutive registration are different cases

Suppose the same appointment rule applies, but the directory is not updated until 3 October. The authorized decision and its 1 October effective date are adequately evidenced. The handler can establish the appointment condition for 2 October and correct the directory’s account. The delay in recording does not move the appointment’s effective date under this rule.

Now consider a different, explicitly supplied rule for a resource reservation: the reservation becomes effective only when the authorized allocation is entered into the designated registry. The case supplies an approved allocation at 12:00 and the required registration at 13:00, with all other conditions met. Before 13:00 the rule’s constitutive condition is incomplete; afterward it is complete. Here registration matters because the rule assigns it that role.

The handler therefore asks what the actual rule makes effective. “The record is missing” alone cannot distinguish absent evidence, incomplete constitution and a reporting defect.