The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1992

2.  Regulation 6 of the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) Regulations 1978(1) shall be amended as follows:

(a) for paragraph (6) there shall be substituted—

“(6) A member of a brigade shall not be eligible to enter for an examination specified in Schedule 1, 2 or 3, as the case may be, if—

(a) (i) in the immediately preceding year, he entered for the examina-tion in question but attended no part of that examination, and

(ii) he has not satisfied the Fire Services Examinations Board that he had a reasonable excuse for such non-attendance, or

(b) where the examination in question is a written examination specified in Part I of Schedule 1 or 2, or in Schedule 3, he has, in the two successive immediately preceding years, failed that examination and has, on each occasion, obtained less that 25% of the marks available in that examination.”;

(b) in paragraph (6A) for the words “date of the sitting of the final paper in” there shall be substituted the words “end of”;

(c) for paragraph (6B) there shall be substituted—

“(6B) Paragraph (6) above shall not apply in respect of—

(a) non-attendance at a practical examination, as specified in Part II of Schedule 1 or 2, before 1st January 1993, or

(b) failure to achieve 25% or more of the total marks available in an examination before 1st April 1991.”, and

(d) in Schedules 1 and 2, in the heading to Part II, for the word “Test” there shall be substituted the word “Examination”.

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S.I. 1978/436; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1985/1176, 1991/369 and 1992/187.