Acting Capacity

No employee of a department, agency or instrumentality of the government of Guam shall be appointed by a cognizant authority to serve temporarily in an acting capacity as head of a department, agency or instrumentality for a period in excess of one year.

(a)Any employee so appointed has the right to return to the position the employee held immediately before the appointment to serve in an acting capacity after the one-year period is exhausted.

(b)The time limitation of this Section may not be circumvented by an interruption in the appointment to an acting capacity or to the position the employee held immediately before the appointment for a period of less than thirty

(30)days.