---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 401.10"
title: "20"
number: "401.10"
heading: "Applicability."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/401.10"
---

# §401.10. Applicability.

- (a) **SSA.** All SSA employees and components are governed by this part. SSA employees governed by this part include all regular and special government employees of SSA; experts and consultants whose temporary (not in excess of 1 year) or intermittent services have been procured by SSA by contract pursuant to [5 U.S.C. 3109](/usc/5/3109.md); volunteers where acceptance of their services are authorized by law; those individuals performing gratuitous services as permitted under conditions prescribed by the Office of Personnel Management; and, participants in work-study or training programs.
- (b) **Other entities.** This part also applies to advisory committees and councils within the meaning of the Federal Advisory Committee Act which provide advice to: Any official or component of SSA; or the President and for which SSA has been delegated responsibility for providing services.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 205, 702(a)(5), 1106, and 1141 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 405, 902(a)(5), 1306, and 1320b-11); 5 U.S.C. 552 and 552a; 8 U.S.C. 1360; 26 U.S.C. 6103; 30 U.S.C. 923.

### Source

Source: 62 FR 4143, Jan. 29, 1997, unless otherwise noted.