---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 332.301"
title: "5"
number: "332.301"
heading: "Termination of eligibility."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/332.301"
---

# §332.301. Termination of eligibility.

- (a) Except as provided in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, a person's eligibility on a register is terminated when:
  - (1) He accepts a career or career-conditional appointment from the register; or
  - (2) **OPM terminates the eligibility of all persons on the register.**
- (b) OPM may determine that in particular types of cases eligibility may not be terminated in less than 1 year. OPM shall publish the conditions under which eligibility may not be terminated in less than 1 year.

## Notes

### Amendments

[33 FR 12426, Sept. 4, 1968, as amended at 66 FR 66710, Dec. 27, 2001]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 1103, 1104, 1302, 2108, 3301, 3302, 3304, 3312, 3317, 3318, 3319; sec. 2(d), Pub. L. 114-137, 130 Stat. 310; E.O. 10577, 19 FR 7521, 3 CFR 1954-1958 Comp., p. 218.

### Source

Source: 33 FR 12426, Sept. 4, 1968, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[33 FR 12426, Sept. 4, 1968, as amended at 66 FR 66710, Dec. 27, 2001]