Regulations last checked for updates: May 19, 2024

Title 29 - Labor last revised: Apr 30, 2024
§ 18.301 - Presumptions in general.

Except as otherwise provided by Act of Congress, or by rules or regulations prescribed by the administrative agency pursuant to statutory authority, or pursuant to executive order, a presumption imposes on the party against whom it is directed the burden of going forward with evidence to rebut or meet the presumption, but does not shift to such party the burden of proof in the sense of the risk of nonpersuasion, which remains throughout the trial upon the party on whom it was originally cast.

authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 5 U.S.C. 551-553; 5 U.S.C. 571 note; E.O. 12778; 57 FR 7292
source: 48 FR 32538, July 15, 1983, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 29 CFR 18.301