5 CFR § 359.202 - Definitions.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t5/s359.202"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "5 CFR § 359.202 - Definitions."
title_number: 5
title_name: "Administrative Personnel"
section_number: "359.202"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS"
part_number: "359"
part_name: "REMOVAL FROM THE SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE; GUARANTEED PLACEMENT IN OTHER PERSONNEL SYSTEMS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "5 U.S.C. 1302, 3302, and 3596, unless otherwise noted."
regulatory_source: "54 FR 18876, May 3, 1989, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "359"
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# 359.202 Definitions.
*Agency, Senior Executive Service position, senior executive, career appointee, limited emergency appointee, limited term appointee,* and *noncareer appointee,* are defined in 5 U.S.C. 3132(a).
*Probation* and *probationary period* mean the 1-year probation required by 5 U.S.C. 3393(d) upon initial career appointment to the SES.
*Reemployed annitant* means an individual who is receiving an annuity under the Civil Service Retirement System or the Federal Employees' Retirement System on the basis of his or her former Federal service. A reemployed annuitant serves at the pleasure of the appointing authority.