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[CITE: 5USC3361]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                   Subpart B--Employment and Retention
 
            CHAPTER 33--EXAMINATION, SELECTION, AND PLACEMENT
 
                         SUBCHAPTER V--PROMOTION
 
Sec. 3361. Promotion; competitive service; examination

    An individual may be promoted in the competitive service only if he 
has passed an examination or is specifically excepted from examination 
under section 3302 of this title. This section does not take from the 
President any authority conferred by section 3301 of this title that is 
consistent with the provisions of this title governing the competitive 
service.

(Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 426.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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                                                    Revised Statutes and
     Derivation                U.S. Code             Statutes at Large
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                     5 U.S.C. 638 (as applicable   Jan. 16, 1883, ch.
                      to promotion).                27, Sec.  7 (as
                                                    applicable to
                                                    promotion), 22 Stat.
                                                    406.
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    The words ``That after the expiration of six months from the passage 
of this act'' are omitted as executed. The words ``in the competitive 
service'' are substituted for ``in either of the said classes now 
existing, or that may be arranged hereunder pursuant to said rules'' 
because of the definition of ``competitive service'' in section 2102. In 
the second sentence, the words ``the provisions of this title governing 
the competitive service'' are substituted for ``this act''.
    Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable 
and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.
