---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 725.1"
title: "32"
number: "725.1"
heading: "Purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/725.1"
---

# §725.1. Purpose.


This instruction implements [32 CFR part 97](/cfr/32/part97.md) regarding the release of official Department of the Navy (DON) information and provision of testimony by DON personnel for litigation purposes, and prescribes conduct of DON personnel in response to a litigation request or demand. It restates the information contained in Secretary of the Navy Instruction 5820.8A of 27 August 1991 1 , and is intended to conform in all respects with the requirements of that instruction.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 10 U.S.C. 113, 5013; 31 U.S.C. 9701 and 32 CFR part 97.

### Source

Source: 57 FR 2463, Jan. 22, 1992, unless otherwise noted.