---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 297.303"
title: "5"
number: "297.303"
heading: "Applicability of amendment provisions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/297.303"
---

# §297.303. Applicability of amendment provisions.

- (a) The amendment procedures are not intended to allow a challenge to material that records an event that actually occurred nor are they designed to permit a collateral attack upon that which has been or could have been the subject of a judicial, quasi-judicial, or administrative proceeding. The amendment procedures are also not designed to change opinions in records pertaining to the individual.
- (b) The amendment procedures apply to situations when an occurrence that is documented was challenged through an established judicial, quasi-judicial, or administrative procedure and found to be inaccurately described; when the document is not identical to the individual's copy; or when the document is not created in accordance with the applicable recordkeeping requirements. (For example, the amendment provisions are not designed to allow a challenge to the merits of an agency adverse action that is documented in an individual's Official Personnel Folder.)

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552a; Pub. L. 115-59, 113 Stat. 1152 (42 U.S.C. 405 note).

### Source

Source: 53 FR 1998, Jan. 26, 1988, unless otherwise noted.