5 CFR § 1209.1 - Scope.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t5/s1209.1"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "5 CFR § 1209.1 - Scope."
title_number: 5
title_name: "Administrative Personnel"
section_number: "1209.1"
section_name: "Scope."
chapter_name: "MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD"
subchapter_number: "A"
subchapter_name: "ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURES"
part_number: "1209"
part_name: "PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES FOR APPEALS AND STAY REQUESTS OF PERSONNEL ACTIONS ALLEGEDLY BASED ON WHISTLEBLOWING OR OTHER PROTECTED ACTIVITY"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "5 U.S.C. 1204, 1221, 2302(b)(8) and (b)(9)(A)(i), (B), (C), or (D), and 7701."
regulatory_source: "55 FR 28592, July 12, 1990, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "1209"
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# 1209.1 Scope.
This part governs any appeal or stay request filed with the Board by an employee, former employee, or applicant for employment where the appellant alleges that a personnel action defined in 5 U.S.C. 2302(a)(2) was threatened, proposed, taken, or not taken because of the appellant's whistleblowing or other protected activity activities. Included are individual right of action appeals authorized by 5 U.S.C. 1221(a), appeals of otherwise appealable actions allegedly based on the appellant's whistleblowing or other protected activity, and requests for stays of personnel actions allegedly based on whistleblowing or other protected activity.
[78 FR 39546, July 2, 2013]