5 CFR 2638.601

§ 2638.601 Authority and purpose.

United States · 5 CFR — Administrative Personnel · Status: effective

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Citation: 5 CFR 2638.601, § 2638.601 Authority and purpose, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/11083
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(a) Authority. The regulations of this part are issued pursuant to the authority of titles I and IV of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-521, as amended) (“the Act”). (b) Purpose. These executive branch regulations supplement and implement titles I, IV and V of the Act and set forth more specifically certain procedures provided in those titles, and furnish examples, where appropriate. (c) Agency authority. Subject only to the authority of the Office of Government Ethics as the supervising ethics office for the executive branch, all authority conferred on agencies in this subchapter B of chapter XVI of title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations is sole and exclusive authority.

Legislative history

This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.