[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR212.301]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 212_COMPETITIVE SERVICE AND COMPETITIVE STATUS--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart C_Competitive Status
 
Sec. 212.301  Competitive status defined.


    In this chapter, competitive status means an individual's basic 
eligibility for noncompetitive assignment to a competitive position. 
Competitive status is acquired by completion of a probationary period 
under a career-conditional or career appointment, or under

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a career executive assignment in the former executive assignment system, 
following open competitive examination, or by statute, Executive order, 
or the Civil Service rules, without open competitive examination. An 
individual with competitive status may be, without open competitive 
examination, reinstated, transferred, promoted, reassigned, or demoted, 
subject to conditions prescribed by the Civil Service rules and 
regulations.

[33 FR 12408, Sept. 4, 1968, as amended at 57 FR 10123, Mar. 24, 1992]