---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 C.F.R. § 771.127"
title: "27"
number: "771.127"
heading: "Privileges."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/27/771.127"
---

# §771.127. Privileges.


The Administrative Procedure Act, [5 U.S.C. 559](/usc/5/559.md), provides that, except as otherwise required by law, privileges relating to procedure or evidence apply equally to agencies and persons. Therefore, an agency may rely on judicially-approved privileges to resist production of its files where appropriate.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 18 U.S.C. 843, 847.

### Source

Source: 84 FR 64744, Nov. 25, 2019, unless otherwise noted.