Regulations last checked for updates: Dec 18, 2025

Title 5 - Administrative Personnel last revised: Dec 10, 2025
§ 315.301 - Tenure on appointment from register.

(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, an eligible appointed from a register for other than temporary or term employment becomes a career-conditional employee.

(b) An eligible appointed from a register for other than temporary or term employment becomes a career employee when he is excepted from the service requirement for career tenure by § 315.201(c).

§ 315.302 - Acquisition of competitive status.

An employee appointed as provided in § 315.301 acquires a competitive status automatically on completion of probation.

authority: 5 U.S.C. 1302,3301,and. E.O. 10577, 19 FR 7521, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., p. 218; E.O. 14284, 90 FR 17729
source: 33 FR 12418, Sept. 4, 1968, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 5 CFR 315.302