---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 C.F.R. § 8.29"
title: "31"
number: "8.29"
heading: "Limited practice without enrollment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/31/8.29"
---

# §8.29. Limited practice without enrollment.

- (a) **General.** Individuals may appear on their own behalf and may otherwise appear without enrollment, providing they present satisfactory identification, in the following classes of cases:
  - (1) An individual may represent another individual who is his or her regular full-time employer, may represent a partnership of which he or she is a member or a regular full-time employee, of may represent without compensation a member of his or her immediate family.
  - (2) Corporations (including parent corporations, subsidiaries or affiliated corporations), trusts, estates, associations, or organized groups may be represented by bona fide officers or regular full-time employees.
  - (3) Trusts, receiverships, guardianships, or estates may be represented by their trustees, receivers, guardians, administrators, executors, or their regular full-time employees.
  - (4) Any government unit, agency, or authority may be represented by an officer or regular employee in the course of his or her official duties.
  - (5) Unenrolled persons may participate in rulemaking as provided in [5 U.S.C. 553](/usc/5/553.md).
- (b) **Special appearances.** The Director, subject to conditions he or she deems appropriate, may authorize any person to represent a party without enrollment, for the purpose of a particular matter.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 3, 23 Stat. 258 (31 U.S.C. 1026); 5 U.S.C. 301, 500, 551-559; and Reorganization Plan No. 26 of 1950, 15 FR 4935, 64 Stat. 1280, as amended.

### Source

Source: 42 FR 33026, June 29, 1977, unless otherwise noted.