---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 3596"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "3596"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/3596"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart B — Employment and Retention"
  - "Chapter 35 — Retention Preference, Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments, Restoration, and Reemployment"
  - "Subchapter V — Removal, Reinstatement, and Guaranteed Placement in the Senior Executive Service"
---

# §3596. Regulations


The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management shall prescribe regulations to carry out the purpose of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 95–454, title IV, § 404(b), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1167, § 3595; renumbered § 3596, Pub. L. 97–35, title XVII, § 1704(a)(1), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 756.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1981—Pub. L. 97–35 renumbered section 3596 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 9 months after Oct. 13, 1978, and congressional review of provisions of sections 401 through 412 of Pub. L. 95–454, see section 415(a)(1), (b), of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as a note under section 3131 of this title.