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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>77109</law_id><section_number>2.2-4029</section_number><catch_line>Court judgments</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>2.2-4027</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="2.2">Administration of Government</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Administration of State Government</unit><unit label="part" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="B">Transaction of Public Business</unit><unit label="chapter" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="40">Administrative Process Act</unit><unit label="article" level="5" order_by="1" identifier="5">Court Review</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Unless an error of law as defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Issues on review" href="/2.2-4027/">2.2-4027</a> appears, the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall dismiss the review action or <span class="dictionary">affirm</span> the agency <span class="dictionary">regulation</span> or decision. Otherwise, it may compel <span class="dictionary">agency action</span> unlawfully and arbitrarily withheld or unreasonably delayed except that the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall not itself undertake to supply <span class="dictionary">agency action</span> committed by the <span class="dictionary">basic law</span> to the agency. Where a <span class="dictionary">regulation</span> or <span class="dictionary">case decision</span> is found by the <span class="dictionary">court</span> not to be in accordance with law under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Issues on review" href="/2.2-4027/">2.2-4027</a>, the <span class="dictionary">court</span> shall suspend or set it aside and <span class="dictionary">remand</span> the matter to the agency for further proceedings, if any, as the <span class="dictionary">court</span> may permit or direct in accordance with law.</p></section></text><history>1975, c. 503, &#xA7; 9-6.14:19; 2001, c. 844.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
