ADM.8:4.3 - Resolve only the conflict that actually applies

Determine whether the apparently competing conclusions concern the same beneficiary and action with overlapping scope and time. A download restriction may leave a permitted read untouched. A restriction from 09:00 to 11:00 does not by itself govern an action at noon.

For an actual conflict, follow A.2.8.PER’s distinction. First apply a matching current precedence rule when it selects the applicable conclusion. Otherwise reuse an adequate authorized resolving decision for this scope and time. Only a remaining unresolved conflict calls for the competent person to decide the exact question.

The title of an office, the presence of two records or the handler’s preferred outcome supplies no precedence. Preserve the unresolved condition if the authorized answer is unavailable. An authorized variation does not retroactively make a failed factual prerequisite true.