The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1996

Amendment of the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Scotland) Regulations 1978

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

(a) for paragraphs (6) and (6A)(2) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:–

“(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) in the immediately preceding year, he entered for the examination in question but attended no part of that examination; and

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

(6A) Any excuse submitted for the purposes of paragraph (6)(b) above must be notified to the Fire Services Examinations Board within 21 days of the end of the examination to which it relates.”;

(b) paragraphs (6B) and (6C)(3) shall be omitted;

(c) in paragraph (7)(4) 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

(d) after paragraph (7) there shall be inserted–

“(7A) A member of a 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) above, shall be treated for the purposes of those sub-paragraphs as if he had passed that part of the examination in September 1996.”.

(1)

S.I. 1978/1727; amended by S.I. 1985/1176, 1989/49, 1991/343, 1992/409, 1992/2971, 1993/3079 and 1995/2110.

(2)

Paragraph (6) was substituted by S.I. 1992/2971; paragraph (6A) was inserted by S.I. 1992/409 and amended by S.I. 1992/2971.

(3)

Paragraphs (6B) and (6C) were inserted by S.I. 1992/409; paragraph (6B) was further substituted by S.I. 1992/2971.

(4)

Paragraph (7) was inserted by S.I. 1985/1176.