---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 401.50"
title: "20"
number: "401.50"
heading: "Granting notification of or access to a record."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/401.50"
---

# §401.50. Granting notification of or access to a record.

- (a) **General.** Subject to the provisions governing medical records in [§ 401.55](/cfr/20/401.55.md) and the provisions governing exempt systems in [§ 401.85](/cfr/20/401.85.md), upon receipt of your request for notification of or access to a record and verification of your identity, we will review your request and grant notification or access to a record, if you are the subject of the record.
- (b) **Our delay in responding.** If we determine that we will have to delay responding to your request because of the number of requests we are processing, a breakdown of equipment, shortage of personnel, storage of records in other locations, etc., we will so inform you and tell you when notification or access will be granted.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 205, 702(a)(5), 1106, and 1141 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 405, 902(a)(5), 1306, and 1320b-11); 5 U.S.C. 552 and 552a; 8 U.S.C. 1360; 26 U.S.C. 6103; 30 U.S.C. 923.

### Source

Source: 62 FR 4143, Jan. 29, 1997, unless otherwise noted.