[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 2, Parts 700 to 1199]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR731.301]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (Continued)
 
PART 731--SUITABILITY--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart C--Suitability Rating Actions
 
Sec. 731.301  Jurisdiction.


    (a) Appointments subject to investigation. (1) In order to establish 
an appointee's suitability for employment in the competitive service, 
every appointment to a position in the competitive service is subject to 
investigation by OPM, except:
    (i) Promotion;
    (ii) Demotion;
    (iii) Reassignment;
    (iv) Conversion from career-conditional to career tenure;
    (v) Appointment, or conversion to an appointment, made by an agency 
of an employee of that agency who has been serving continuously with 
that agency for at least one year in one or more positions under an 
appointment subject to investigation; and
    (vi) Transfer, provided the one-year, subject-to-investigation 
period applied to the previous appointment has expired.
    (2) Appointments are subject to investigation to continue OPM's 
jurisdiction to investigate the suitability of an applicant after 
appointment and to authorize OPM to require removal when it finds the 
appointee is unsuitable for Federal employment. The subject-to-
investigation condition may not be construed as requiring an employee to 
serve a new probationary or trial period or as extending the 
probationary or trial period of an employee.
    (b) Duration of condition. The subject-to-investigation condition 
expires automatically at the end of one year after the effective date of 
appointment, except in a case involving intentional false statement or 
deception or fraud in examination or appointment, or refusal to furnish 
testimony.