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[CITE: 22USC4005]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                       CHAPTER 52--FOREIGN SERVICE
 
                 SUBCHAPTER VI--PROMOTION AND RETENTION
 
Sec. 4005. Implementation of selection board recommendations

    (a) Recommendations for promotion made by selection boards shall be 
submitted to the Secretary in rank order by salary class or in rank 
order by specialization within a salary class. The Secretary shall make 
promotions and, with respect to career appointments into or within the 
Senior Foreign Service, shall make recommendations to the President for 
promotions, in accordance with the rankings of the selection boards.
    (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, in special 
circumstances set forth by regulation, the Secretary may remove the name 
of an individual from the rank order list submitted by a selection board 
or delay the promotion of an individual named in such a list.

(Pub. L. 96-465, title I, Sec. 605, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2096.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 4006, 4105 of this title.
