---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 4.1168"
title: "43"
number: "4.1168"
heading: "Amendments to pleadings."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/4.1168"
---

# §4.1168. Amendments to pleadings.

- (a) An application for review may be amended once as a matter of right prior to the filing of an answer and thereafter by leave of the administrative law judge upon proper motion.
- (b) Upon receipt of an initial or amended application for review or subsequent to granting leave to amend, the administrative law judge shall issue an order setting a time for filing an amended answer if the judge determines that such an answer is appropriate.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 30 U.S.C. 1256, 1260, 1261, 1264, 1268, 1271, 1272, 1275, 1293; 5 U.S.C. 301.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 34386, Aug. 3, 1978, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 503-504; 25 U.S.C. 9, 372-74, 410, 2201 et seq.; 43 U.S.C. 1201, 1457; Pub. L. 99-264, 100 Stat. 61, as amended.

### Source

Source: 36 FR 7186, Apr. 15, 1971, unless otherwise noted.