---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 1304.4606"
title: "5"
number: "1304.4606"
heading: "Exemptions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/1304.4606"
---

# §1304.4606. Exemptions.

- (a) **General.**
  - (1) Communications made solely to furnish scientific or technological information are exempt from these prohibitions.
  - (2) A former Government employee may be exempted from the restrictions on post-employment practices if the Deputy Director of OMB, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Government Ethics, executes a certification that is published in the Federal Register. The certification shall state that the former Government employee has outstanding qualifications in a scientific, technological or other technical discipline; is acting with respect to a particular matter which requires such qualifications; and the national interest would be served by his participation.
- (b) **Specific.** The one-year bar shall not apply to a former Senior Employee's representation on new matters if the former Senior Employee is:
  - (1) An elected State or local government official, who is acting on behalf of such government; or
  - (2) Regularly employed by or acting on behalf of an agency or instrumentality of a State or local government; an accredited, degree-granting institution of higher education; or a non-profit hospital or medical research organization.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Title V, Section 501(a), Pub. L. 95-521, as amended, 92 Stat. 1864; and Sections 1 and 2, Pub. L. 96-28, 93 Stat. 76 [18 U.S.C. 207]; 5 CFR 737.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 84007, Dec. 22, 1980, unless otherwise noted.