[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 16, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 16CFR1025.12]

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                     TITLE 16--COMMERCIAL PRACTICES
 
             CHAPTER II--CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
 
PART 1025--RULES OF PRACTICE FOR ADJUDICATIVE PROCEEDINGS--Table of Contents
 
       Subpart B--Pleadings, Form, Execution, Service of Documents
 
Sec.  1025.12  Answer.

    (a) Time for filing. A respondent shall have twenty (20) days after 
service of a complaint to file an answer.
    (b) Contents of answer. The answer shall contain the following:
    (1) A specific admission or denial of each allegation in the 
complaint. If a respondent is without knowledge or information 
sufficient to form a belief as to the truth of an allegation, the 
respondent shall so state. Such statement shall have the effect of a 
denial. Allegations that are not denied shall be deemed to have been 
admitted.
    (2) A concise statement of the factual or legal defenses to each 
allegation of the complaint.
    (c) Default. Failure of a respondent to file an answer within the 
time provided, unless extended, shall constitute

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a waiver of the right to appear and contest the allegations in the 
complaint, and the Presiding Officer may make such findings of fact and 
conclusions of law as are just and reasonable under the circumstances.