[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: 5CFR6.1]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 6_EXCEPTIONS FROM THE COMPETITIVE SERVICE (RULE VI)--Table of 
Contents
 
Sec. 6.1  Authority to except positions from the competitive service.




Sec.
6.1 Authority to except positions from the competitive service.
6.2 Schedules of excepted positions.
6.3 Method of filling excepted positions and status of incumbents.
6.4 Removal of incumbents of excepted positions.
6.5 Assignment of excepted employees.
6.6 Revocation of exceptions.
6.7 Movement of persons between the civil service system and other merit 
          systems.
6.8 Specified exceptions.

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 3301, 3302.

    Source: 28 FR 10025, Sept. 14, 1963, unless otherwise noted.


    (a) OPM may except positions from the competitive service when it 
determines that appointments thereto through competitive examination are 
not practicable. These positions shall be listed in OPM's annual report 
for the fiscal year in which the exceptions are made.
    (b) OPM shall decide whether the duties of any particular position 
are such that it may be filled as an excepted position under the 
appropriate schedule.

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    (c) Notice of OPM's decision granting authority to make appointments 
to an excepted position under the appropriate schedule shall be 
published in the Federal Register.

[28 FR 10025, Sept. 14, 1963, as amended by E.O. 11315, 3 CFR, 1966-1970 
Comp., p. 597; E.O. 12043, 43 FR 9773, Mar. 10, 1978]