[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 24, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 24CFR1720.255]

[Page 79-80]
 
                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
 CHAPTER X--OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HOUSING--FEDERAL HOUSING 
 COMMISSIONER, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (INTERSTATE 
                    LAND SALES REGISTRATION PROGRAM)
 
PART 1720_FORMAL PROCEDURES AND RULES OF PRACTICE--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart D_Adjudicatory Proceedings
 
Sec.  1720.255  Amendments and supplemental pleadings.

    (a) Amendments. Prior to the receipt by the Docket Clerk for 
Administrative Proceedings of an answer to a notice or order, that 
notice or order may be amended as a matter of course. After the receipt 
of an answer, the administrative law judge may allow appropriate 
amendments to pleadings by motion whenever determination of a 
controversy on the merits will be facilitated thereby.
    (b) Variances of proof. When issues not raised by the pleadings but 
reasonably

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within the scope of the suspension notice or notice of proceedings are 
tried by express or implied consent of the parties, they shall be 
treated in all respects as if they had been raised in the pleadings; and 
such amendments of the pleadings as may be necessary to make them 
conform to the evidence and to raise such issues shall be allowed at any 
time.
    (c) Supplemental pleadings. The administrative law judge may, upon 
reasonable notice and such terms as are just, permit service of a 
supplemental pleading setting forth transactions or events which have 
occurred since the date of the pleading sought to be supplemented and 
which are relevant to any of the issues involved.