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(a) Certificate has the meaning given in § 332.102 of this chapter.

(b) A hiring agency may share an excepted service certificate issued for filling positions under Schedules D and Policy/Career with one or more Federal agencies for positions to be filled on a permanent or time-limited basis. Positions filled on a time-limited basis are subject to § 213.104 of this chapter. Positions may be full-time or other than full-time, including part-time, seasonal, on-call, and intermittent positions.

(c) All actions taken on a shared excepted service certificate must occur within 240 days after the date on which the original hiring agency issued the certificate. This period may not be extended.

(d) The original hiring agency and any receiving agency using a shared excepted service certificate must maintain sufficient documentation to reconstruct their respective use of the certificate and must safeguard examination materials, assessment materials, examination results, assessment results, and applicant information in accordance with § 300.201 of this chapter.

(e) All actions taken on a shared excepted service certificate must comply with this part.

(f) Agencies sharing excepted service certificates must keep records of the instances of sharing these certificates and/or using shared excepted service certificates.