Regulation 2

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.”;

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

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

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