---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 1209.1"
title: "5"
number: "1209.1"
heading: "Scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/1209.1"
---

# §1209.1. Scope.


This part governs any appeal or stay request filed with the Board by an employee, former employee, or applicant for employment where the appellant alleges that a personnel action defined in [5 U.S.C. 2302(a)(2)](/usc/5/2302.md?p=a-2) was threatened, proposed, taken, or not taken because of the appellant's whistleblowing or other protected activity activities. Included are individual right of action appeals authorized by [5 U.S.C. 1221(a)](/usc/5/1221.md?p=a), appeals of otherwise appealable actions allegedly based on the appellant's whistleblowing or other protected activity, and requests for stays of personnel actions allegedly based on whistleblowing or other protected activity.


## Notes

### Amendments

[78 FR 39546, July 2, 2013]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 1204, 1221, 2302(b)(8) and (b)(9)(A)(i), (B), (C), or (D), and 7701.

### Source

Source: 55 FR 28592, July 12, 1990, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[78 FR 39546, July 2, 2013]