---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1454"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1454"
heading: "Correction of administrative errors"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1454"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 73 — Annuities Based on Retired or Retainer Pay"
  - "Subchapter II — Survivor Benefit Plan"
---

# §1454. Correction of administrative errors

- (a) **Authority.—** The [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) may, under regulations prescribed under [section 1455 of this title](/usc/10/1455.md), correct or revoke any election under this subchapter when the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) considers it necessary to correct an administrative error.
- (b) **Finality.—** Except when procured by fraud, a correction or revocation under this section is final and conclusive on all [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 92–425, § 1(3), Sept. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 711; amended Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title XIV, § 1407(a)(10)(A), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1589; Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title VI, § 634, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2577.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–201 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section read as follows: “The Secretary concerned may, under regulations prescribed under section 1455 of this title, correct or revoke any election under this subchapter when he considers it necessary to correct an administrative error. Except when procured by fraud, a correction or revocation under this section is final and conclusive on all officers of the United States.”

1989—Pub. L. 101–189 substituted “errors” for “deficiencies” in section catchline.