This subpart applies to any of the following serving in a position in the Federal Government:
    
    
        
        (a) 
         A person serving in the competitive service under a career or career-conditional appointment.
     
    
        
        (b) 
         A person serving under a career appointment in the Senior Executive Service (SES).
     
    
        
        (c) 
         A person serving in the excepted service under an appointment without a specific time limitation.
     
    
        
        (d) 
         A person appointed or assigned under authority of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 801
            et seq. ).
     
    
        
            Code of Federal Regulations
        
        [33 FR 12433, Sept. 4, 1968, as amended at 51 FR 25188, July 11, 1986]