5 CFR § 2638.601 - Authority and purpose.

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title: "5 CFR § 2638.601 - Authority and purpose."
title_number: 5
title_name: "Administrative Personnel"
section_number: "2638.601"
section_name: "Authority and purpose."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS"
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part_number: "2638"
part_name: "EXECUTIVE BRANCH ETHICS PROGRAM"
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authority: "5 U.S.C. App. 101-505; E.O. 12674, 54 FR 15159, 3 CFR, 1989 Comp., p. 215, as modified by E.O. 12731, 55 FR 42547, 3 CFR, 1990 Comp., p. 306."
regulatory_source: "81 FR 76273, Nov. 2, 2016, unless otherwise noted."
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# 2638.601 Authority and purpose.

(a) *Authority.* The regulations of this part are issued pursuant to the authority of titles I and IV of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-521, as amended) (“the Act”).

(b) *Purpose.* These executive branch regulations supplement and implement titles I, IV and V of the Act and set forth more specifically certain procedures provided in those titles, and furnish examples, where appropriate.

(c) *Agency authority.* Subject only to the authority of the Office of Government Ethics as the supervising ethics office for the executive branch, all authority conferred on agencies in this subchapter B of chapter XVI of title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations is sole and exclusive authority.