Orca

Boleto (Brazil payment slip arrangement) Rail Facts

How money moves on this rail, in 12 sourced records: what is final, what can be returned, recalled or refunded, who decides, and what the limits are. A profile belongs to the rulebook, so no reason code list is published on this page.

What the tier labels mean, and how far this page has been checked
Draft
An agent wrote it from published material and nobody has checked it. Use it as a lead to confirm, never on its own as the basis for a retry, a return, a deadline or a compliance decision.
Corroborated
A validator found the same answer in one or more named public sources; the class in brackets says how strong they are. "Secondary sources only" means bank, processor or industry guides and nothing from the operator or regulator. Corroborated does not mean checked against the governing rulebook, so confirm before you act.
Verified
A person checked it against Banco Central do Brasil (BCB)'s own current text and recorded the edition and date. The strongest tier here, and still reference material, not legal or compliance advice.

On a rail fact, every detail line names the section or instrument it rests on and whether that is a rule, a law, operator guidance, or observed practice.

Known gaps in this build

Not yet covered: Núclea's SILOC operating regulation, manual of operations and manual of layouts: the documents page loads by script and was not read, so SILOC windows, default handling and the interbank devolução codes are not held; the participants' convention in force under Res. BCB 443 art. 20: the only edition found in public is the 2021 Convenção da Cobrança, made under the revoked Circular 3.598/2012; the central database's operations and layout manuals, which the 2021 convention treats as trade secrets given to participants only; CNAB240 bank-to-client codes (C044 movement codes and C047 occurrence reasons): held for the first pass; version 11.0 is marked preliminary; the exact processing cut-off between SILOC's afternoon boleto cycle (same day) and the next morning's cycle, left by the SILOC manual of operations to a SILOC processing manual not read; BCB Comunicados on the convention governance structure and the dynamic boleto schedules, Res. BCB 150/2021, Res. BCB 304/2023 and the consumer code (Lei 8.078/1990): not read; outside this rail: the Febraban arrecadação barcode for utility bills and taxes, protest at a notary, the duplicata escritural as an asset, and Split Payment of CBS and IBS.