Regulations last checked for updates: Dec 16, 2025

Title 5 - Administrative Personnel last revised: Nov 07, 2025
§ 731.201 - Standard.

The standard for a suitability and fitness determination and for a suitability action defined in § 731.203 is that the action will protect the integrity or promote the efficiency of the service.

authority: 5 U.S.C. 1302,3301,7301. E.O. 10577, 19 FR 7521, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., p. 218, as amended. E.O. 13467, 73 FR 38103, 3 CFR, 2009 Comp., p. 198, as amended. E.O. 13488, 74 FR 4111, 3 CFR, 2010 Comp., p. 189, as amended. E.O. 13764, 82 FR 8115, 3 CFR, 2017 Comp. p. 243. Presidential Memorandum of January 31, 2014, 3 CFR, 2014 Comp., p. 340. 5 CFR parts 1, 2, 5, and 6
source: 73 FR 20154, Apr. 15, 2008, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 5 CFR 731.201