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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 52 — Foreign Service

§ 4005. Implementation of selection board recommendations

Statutory text

(a)

Recommendations for promotion made by selection boards shall be submitted to the Secretary in rank order by salary class or in rank order by specialization within a salary class. The Secretary shall make promotions and, with respect to career appointments into or within the Senior Foreign Service, shall make recommendations to the President for promotions, in accordance with the rankings of the selection boards.

(b)

Notwithstanding subsection (a), in special circumstances set forth by regulation, the Secretary may remove the name of an individual from the rank order list submitted by a selection board or delay the promotion of an individual named in such a list.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 96–465 title I § 605 · 94 Stat. 2071

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 4005

    (Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 605, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2096.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 605, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2096.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 605. Implementation of Selection Board Recommendations.— (a) Recommendations for promotion made by selection boards shall be submitted to the Secretary in rank order by salary class or in rank order by specialization within a salary class. The Secretary shall make promotions and, with respect to career appointments into or within the Senior Foreign Service, shall make recommendations to the President for promotions, in accordance with the rankings of the selection boards. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), in special circumstances set forth by regulation, the Secretary may remove the name of an individual from the rank order list submitted by a selection board or delay the promotion of an individual named in such a list.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 605, , 94 Stat. 2096.)

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