This subpart is directed to implementation of the policy that competitive employment practices:
    
    
        
        (a) 
         Be practical in character and as far as possible relate to matters that fairly test the relative capacity and fitness of candidates for the jobs to be filled;
     
    
        
        (b) 
         Result in selection from among the best qualified candidates;
     
    
        
        (c) 
         Be developed and used without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, partisan political affiliation or other nonmerit grounds; and
     
    
        
        (d) 
         Insure to the candidate opportunity for appeal or administrative review, as appropriate.
     
    
        
            Code of Federal Regulations
        
        [40 FR 15379, Apr. 7, 1975]