[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 38, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 38CFR1.503]

[Page 38]
 
            TITLE 38--PENSIONS, BONUSES, AND VETERANS' RELIEF
 
                CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
 
PART 1_GENERAL PROVISIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1.503  Disclosure of information to a veteran or his or her

duly authorized representative as to matters concerning the veteran 
alone.

    Information may be disclosed to a veteran or his or her duly 
authorized representative as to matters concerning himself or herself 
alone when such disclosure would not be injurious to the physical or 
mental health of the veteran. If the veteran be deceased, matters 
concerning him or her may be disclosed to his widow, children, or next 
of kin if such disclosure will not be injurious to the physical or 
mental health of the person in whose behalf information is sought or 
cause repugnance or resentment toward the decedent.

[13 FR 6999, Nov. 27, 1948]