The Executive Secretaries may not change or edit a Secretary's or AdComm's SEC ED but may only pass or send it back with comments.
A Secretary likewise may not change another lower executive's SEC ED in the Secretary's Division but must only pass it on or send it back with comments.
An Executive Secretary or a Secretary may have a job endangerment chit filed for refusing to pass a SEC ED an executive believes vital to uphold his or her statistic, with a full explanation of why.
The LRH Communicator may refuse to pass a SEC ED only if it is against policy and if so, then the full reference of what policy letter or SEC ED it violates must be furnished with the refusal. This means of course that an LRH Communicator must be well up on Policy. Nebulous "It's against policy" is a violation of the LRH Comm's instructions from me.
If no policy concerning such a SEC ED is known to exist yet the SEC ED seems to the LRH Communicator to put the org at risk, the SEC ED must be cabled to the LRH Comm WW for further advices.
If by refusing to issue a SEC ED, an executive's statistic becomes bad and if this is traced beyond reasonable doubt in any resulting hearing on that Executive, the LRH Communicator must be given a hearing.
On the other hand if a SEC ED is passed by an LRH Communicator that is clearly against published policy letters and results in dropped statistics then if any hearing occurs on the Executives whose statistics dropped the LRH Communicator must be made interested party.
The theory operating here is that SEC EDs are supposed to improve statistics and that one cannot hold an executive responsible for his or her statistic if that executive's orders are prevented from being issued.
An executive worth anything at all will issue specific orders to remedy a dropped statistic or reinforce a climbing one and as that executive is awarded or penalized only on the basis of the statistics he or she is responsible for, interference with his or her orders can be serious. Seniors usually advise a more junior executive who is doing normally. One who is not gets into a Danger Condition easily and so specific orders must be originated that by-pass his authority. Advising a junior who is in affluence is pretty silly unless one simply says he better find out why and keep doing it.
One can always quote actual policy letters or bulletins at any level with no fear of making a danger condition unless one is quoting inapplicable material.
If an executive is going to be hung for a statistic then he is entitled to give the orders up to a point where the org is endangered. At that moment of course he or she goes into Danger Condition.
An executive can always even originate a policy letter or one that cancels an impeding Pol Ltr or SEC ED if he or she thinks it will help his statistic.
An originated cancellation of a Pol Ltr or a new Pol Ltr must go to the Qual Sec for opinion and then the HCO Area Sec and then the Advisory Council and any changes needed must be noted and it must be sent back to the originator at any stage for rewrite before it can go to the LRH Communicator and so on to LRH.