Regulations last checked for updates: Dec 17, 2025

Title 4 - Accounts last revised: Jul 18, 2024
§ 3.1 - Appointment, promotion, and assignment.

Employees of GAO shall be appointed, promoted and assigned solely on the basis of merit and fitness, but without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments and other personnel actions in the competitive service.

authority: 31 U.S.C. 732.
source: 45 FR 68376, Oct. 15, 1980, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 4 CFR 3.1