CB.13:4.7 - Use, reassess and end the mandate deliberately

Follow the first actual decisions. Could participants offer relevant information? Did the authorised people decide within scope? Could the recipients carry the decision out? Did an affected local group or contributor discover a commitment they had never made?

Return the observed difficulty to its proper question. CB.7 repairs preparation or support for the organising work. CB.8 handles an incident under a valid rule. OCE.14 compares and implements a bounded revision of an established organisation when its current owner and decision rule are available. A defective or expired mandate returns here.

Review the arrangement when the activity, affected parties, resource conditions or scale of consequences changes. Use the agreed amendment method; do not treat an informal practice that drifted beyond the mandate as its automatic renewal.

At expiry, obtain renewal, replace the holder, reduce the subject or end the mandate through the applicable arrangement. Settle pending decisions and continuing commitments. Explain which ordinary work can continue under its own conditions and which must wait for a new mandate.

Close with an effective arrangement usable for its declared subjects, or with the specific missing authority question returned to the people who can resolve it. Evidence from its later use can justify keeping or revising it; adoption alone establishes no general claim about community trust or effectiveness.