In an administrative appeal, what must be reported to the committee when an address or a place for service changes, and how may that report reach it?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
For this exercise, the papers to read are the filing copy of the written report of the change, any receipt or record showing it arrived at the administrative appeals committee, the papers showing what the address of record had been before the change, and the record showing whether an email address had been given to the committee under the provision it refers to.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading follows the provision word for word: a party, an agent, a participant or another person of that kind who changes an address, an office or the place for service must report the fact to the committee immediately, either in writing or through an electronic information processing system, and the same report duty applies where an email address of the kind the provision refers to has been changed.
Another reading reads the scope narrowly and leaves the rest open: the provision names what must be changed, not what counts as the change having occurred, and it sets no period in days for 'immediately' and no consequence for failing to report, so those points are not settled by this text.
Your judgment
How could a file show when the change of address actually occurred, so that reporting it immediately can be measured?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to set a period for reporting or a consequence for failing to report, or if a committee decision explains when a report of a change is treated as having been made.