diff --git a/Documentation/access-control.txt b/Documentation/access-control.txt
index 510203315e..9ff0156d40 100644
--- a/Documentation/access-control.txt
+++ b/Documentation/access-control.txt
@@ -419,8 +419,9 @@ This category controls whether users are allowed to abandon changes
 to projects in Gerrit. It can give permission to abandon a specific
 change to a given ref.
 
-This also grants the permission to restore a change if the change
-can be uploaded.
+This also grants the permission to restore a change if the user also
+has link:#category_push[push permission] on the change's destination
+ref.
 
 
 [[category_create]]