ADM.9:5.2 - A payment response disappeared

Treasury is authorized to transfer 400 units to a specified recipient. The payment provider receives an instruction, but the response connection fails. The available observation is “the response was lost”; it does not establish whether funds were credited.

The handler preserves the original attempt reference and requests its effect through the provider’s authorized inquiry channel. The provider confirms credit to the intended account. Under the supplied payment terms, that evidence establishes the promised effect; no second payment is needed.

If the provider instead confirms failure before any credit, treasury can use its applicable authorized retry instruction. If the effect remains unknown, the handler returns that uncertainty and the effect-recovery task. ADM.10 determines what can then be said about the obligation and records.