[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2006]
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[CITE: 5CFR1.3]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 1_COVERAGE AND DEFINITIONS (RULE I)--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1.3  Definitions.

    As used in the rules in this subchapter:
    (a) Competitive service shall have the same meaning as the words 
``classified service'', or ``classified (competitive) service'', or 
``classified civil service'' as defined in existing statutes and 
executive orders.
    (b) Competitive position shall mean a position in the competitive 
service.
    (c) Competitive status shall mean basic eligibility to be 
noncompetitively selected to fill a vacancy in a competitive position. A 
competitive status shall be acquired by career-conditional or career 
appointment through open competitive examination upon satisfactory 
completion of a probationary period, or may be granted by statute, 
executive order, or the Civil Service Rules without competitive 
examination. A person with competitive status may be promoted, 
transferred, reassigned, reinstated, or demoted without taking an open 
competitive examination, subject to the conditions prescribed by the 
Civil Service Rules and Regulations.
    (d) An employee shall be considered as being in the competitive 
service when he has a competitive status and occupies a competitive 
position unless he is serving under a temporary appointment: Provided, 
that an employee who is in the competitive service at the time his 
position is first listed under Schedule A, B, or C shall be considered 
as continuing in the competitive service as long as he continues to 
occupy such position.
    (e) Tenure shall mean the period of time an employee may reasonably 
expect to serve under his current appointment. Tenure shall be granted 
and governed by the type of appointment under which an employee is 
currently serving without regard to whether he has a competitive status 
or whether his appointment is to a competitive position or an excepted 
position.