[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 5CFR2.1]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 2--APPOINTMENT THROUGH THE COMPETITIVE SYSTEM (RULE II)--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 2.1  Competitive examinations and eligible registers.

    (a) OPM shall be responsible for open competitive examinations for 
admission to the competitive service which will fairly test the relative 
capacity and fitness of the persons examined for the position to be 
filled. OPM is authorized to establish standards with respect to 
citizenship, age, education, training and experience, suitability, and 
physical and mental fitness, and for residence or other requirements 
which applicants must meet to be admitted to or rated in examinations.
    (b) In addition to the names of persons who qualify in competitive 
examinations, the names of persons who have lost eligibility on a career 
or career-conditional register because of service in the armed forces, 
and the names of persons who lost opportunity for certification or who 
have served under career or career-conditional appointment when OPM 
determines that they should be given certification, may also be entered 
at such places on appropriate registers and under such conditions as OPM 
may prescribe.
    (c) Whenever the Office of Personnel Management (1) is unable to 
certify a sufficient number of names to permit the appointing officer to 
consider three eligibles for appointment to a fourth-class postmaster 
position in accordance with the regular procedure, or (2) finds that a 
particular rate of compensation for fourth-class postmaster positions is 
too low to warrant regular competitive examinations for such positions, 
it may authorize appointment to any such position or positions in 
accordance with such procedure as may be prescribed by OPM. Persons 
appointed under this paragraph may acquire competitive status subject to 
satisfactory completion of a probationary period prescribed by OPM.