[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR315.703]

[Page 166]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 315_CAREER AND CAREER-CONDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart G_Conversion to Career or Career-Conditional Employment From 
                        Other Types of Employment
 
Sec. 315.703  Employees formerly reached on a register.

    (a) Employee coverage. An employee who was serving in a position 
when his or her name was within reach for career or career-conditional 
appointment on a register appropriate for that position may be converted 
to career or career-conditional employment when:
    (1) The employee's name was included on an appropriate certificate 
issued while the employee was serving in the position, or reconstruction 
of the appropriate register verifies that the employee would have been 
within reach;
    (2) The register was being used for career and career-conditional 
appointments when he or she was reached;
    (3) He or she has been continuously employed since being reached;
    (4) Conversion is initiated either before the expiration of the 
register or during a period of continuous service since the employee was 
reached; and
    (5) When the employee is a nonpreference eligible who was first 
reached after February 1, 1955, the Office, or the agency, in accordance 
with an agreement with the Office, determines that satisfactory reasons 
existed for passing over any preference eligible who preceded the 
employee on the register when he or she was reached and who is still 
within reach and available for appointment.
    (b) Tenure on conversion. An employee whose appointment is converted 
under paragraph (a) of this section becomes:
    (1) A career-conditional employee except as provided in paragraph 
(b)(2) of this section;
    (2) A career employee when he or she has completed the service 
requirement for career tenure or is excepted from it by Sec. 
315.201(c).
    (c) Acquisition of competitive status. An employee whose employment 
is converted to career or career-conditional employment under this 
section acquires a competitive status automatically on completion of 
probation.

[44 FR 55132, Sept. 25, 1979]