5 CFR § 1203.2 - Definitions.

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title: "5 CFR § 1203.2 - Definitions."
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title_name: "Administrative Personnel"
section_number: "1203.2"
section_name: "Definitions."
chapter_name: "MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD"
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subchapter_name: "ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURES"
part_number: "1203"
part_name: "PROCEDURES FOR REVIEW OF RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT"
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authority: "5 U.S.C. 1204(a), 1204(f), and 1204(h)."
regulatory_source: "54 FR 23632, June 2, 1989, unless otherwise noted."
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# 1203.2 Definitions.

(a) *Invalid regulation* means a regulation that has been issued by OPM, and that, on its face, would require an employee to commit a prohibited personnel practice if any agency implemented the regulation.

(b) *Invalidly implemented regulation* means a regulation, issued by OPM, whose implementation by an agency has required an employee to commit a prohibited personnel practice. A valid regulation may be invalidly implemented.

(c) *Merit system principles* are the principles stated in 5 U.S.C. 2301(b)(1) through 2301(b)(9).

(d) *Pleadings* are written submissions containing claims, allegations, arguments, or evidence. They include briefs, motions, requests for regulation review, responses, replies, and attachments that are submitted in connection with proceedings under this part.

(e) Prohibited personnel practices are the impermissible actions described in 5 U.S.C. 2302(b)(1) through 2302(b)(12).

(f) *Regulation review* means the procedure under which the Board, under 5 U.S.C. 1204(f), reviews regulations issued by OPM on their face, or reviews those regulations as they have been implemented, or both, in order to determine whether the regulations require any employee to commit a prohibited personnel practice.

(g) *Request for regulation review* means a request that the Board review a regulation issued by OPM.

[54 FR 23632, June 2, 1989, as amended at 54 FR 28658, July 6, 1989; 77 FR 62373, Oct. 12, 2012]