1. These Regulations may be cited as the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 25th November 1996.
2. The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979(1), shall be amended as follows—
(1) In regulation 7 (promotion to a rank higher than that of firefighter)—
(a)in paragraph (6)—
(i)the number “(i)” shall be omitted;
(ii)for the number “(ii)” there shall be substituted the letter “(b)”, and
(iii)the words “or” to the end shall be omitted;
(b)in paragraph (6A) for the letter “(a)” there shall be substituted the letter “(b)”;
(c)paragraphs (6B) and (6C) shall be omitted;
(d)in paragraph (7) for the words “(in that or an earlier year)” in each place where they occur there shall be substituted “, on one of the three successive immediately preceding occasions on which it was held,”; and
(e)after paragraph (7) there shall be inserted—
“(7A) A member of the brigade who has, prior to September 1996, passed Part I of the examination referred to in sub-paragraph (a) or, as the case may be, in sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (7), shall be treated for the purposes of those sub-paragraphs as if he had passed that part of the examination in September 1996.”.
(2) In paragraph (a) of Part II of Schedules 1 and 2, for the words “Drill Book” there shall be substituted “Training Manual”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 14th October 1996.
L.S.
Trevor Pearson
Assistant Secretary