---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 339.14"
title: "32"
number: "339.14"
heading: "Use of guidance documents."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/339.14"
---

# §339.14. Use of guidance documents.


Guidance documents cannot create binding requirements that do not already exist by statute or regulation. Accordingly, noncompliance with guidance documents cannot be used as a basis for proving violations of applicable law. Guidance documents can do no more, with respect to prohibition of conduct, than articulate the Department's understanding of how a statute or regulation applies to particular circumstances.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552a.