---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 406.133"
title: "14"
number: "406.133"
heading: "Amendment of pleadings."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/406.133"
---

# §406.133. Amendment of pleadings.

- (a) **Time.** A party must file with the Federal Docket Management System and serve on each other party any amendment to a complaint or an answer as follows:
  - (1) Not later than 15 days before the scheduled date of a hearing, a party may amend a complaint or an answer without the consent of the administrative law judge.
  - (2) Less than 15 days before the scheduled date of a hearing, the administrative law judge may allow amendment of a complaint or an answer only for good cause shown in a motion to amend.
- (b) **Responses.** The administrative law judge must allow a reasonable time, but not more than 20 days from the date of filing, for other parties to respond to an amendment to a complaint or answer.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Doc. No. FAA-2001-8607, 66 FR 2180, Jan. 10, 2001, as amended at 72 FR 68477, Dec. 5, 2007]

### Authority

Authority: 51 U.S.C. 50901-50923.

### Source

Source: Docket No. FAA-2001-8607, 66 FR 2180, Jan. 10, 2001, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Doc. No. FAA-2001-8607, 66 FR 2180, Jan. 10, 2001, as amended at 72 FR 68477, Dec. 5, 2007]