The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Amendment) Regulation 1991

2.  The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) Regualtions 1978(1) shall be amended as follows:

(a) for the word “fireman”, wherever it occurs, there shall be substituted the word “firefighter”

(b) in regulation 2 paragraph (3) shall be omitted;

(c) in regulation 5(3)(b)(i) for the word “impracticable” there shall be substituted the word “impractical”;

(d) in regulation 6—

(i) in paragraph (2) for the wordsd “service and shall” there shall be substituted the words “service, shall” and after the words “Schedule 1” there shall be inserted the words “, and shall have obtained a certificate in first aid in the period of three years immediately preceding entry for the examination in Part II of Schedule 1 which he has passed”;

(ii) for paragraph (6) there shall be substituted the following provisions—

(1) A member of a brigade shall not be eligible to enter for any of the examinations specified in Part 1 of Schedules 1 or 2, or in Schedule 3, as the case may be, if

(a) (i) in the immediately preceding year, he entered for the examination in question but failed to attend the sitting of all the papers for which he entered in that examination and

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

(b) in the two successive immediately preceding years he has failed the examination in question and has, on each occasion, obtained less than 25% of the total marks available in that examination.

(2) Any excuse submitted for the purposes of sub-paragraph (a) above must be notified to the Fire Services Examinations Board within 21 days of the date of the sitting of the final paper in the examination to which it relates,”;

(iii) in paragraph (7)(a) after the words“Part I of that Schedule” there shall be inserted the words “and has, in the period of three years immediately preceedinbg entry for the first-mentioned examination, obtained a certificate in first aid”;

(d) in regulation 9(2) for the word“Training” there shall be mentioned the word “Management”, and

(e) in Schedule 1, paragraph (c) pf Part II shall be omitted.

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S.I. 1978/436; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1985/1176. 1988/2235