---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 7514"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "7514"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/7514"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart F — Labor-Management and Employee Relations"
  - "Chapter 75 — Adverse Actions"
  - "Subchapter II — Removal, Suspension for More Than 14 Days, Reduction in Grade or Pay, or Furlough for 30 Days or Less"
---

# §7514. Regulations


The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management may prescribe regulations to carry out the purpose of this subchapter, except as it concerns any matter with respect to which the Merit [Systems](/usc/5/8401.md?p=29) Protection [Board](/usc/5/8401.md?p=5) may prescribe regulations.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 95–454, title II, § 204(a), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1137.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as an Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note under section 1101 of this title.