{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-amendment-no-2-regulations-1992/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2365",
  "legislation_title": "The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-amendment-no-2-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulation 6 of the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) Regulations 1978 shall be amended as follows:\n(a) for paragraph (6) there shall be substituted—\n“(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—\n(a) (i) in the immediately preceding year, he entered for the examina-tion in question but attended no part of that examination, and\n(ii) he has not satisfied the Fire Services Examinations Board that he had a reasonable excuse for such non-attendance, or\n(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.”;\n(b) in paragraph (6A) for the words “date of the sitting of the final paper in” there shall be substituted the words “end of”;\n(c) for paragraph (6B) there shall be substituted—\n“(6B) Paragraph (6) above shall not apply in respect of—\n(a) non-attendance at a practical examination, as specified in Part II of Schedule 1 or 2, before 1st January 1993, or\n(b) failure to achieve 25% or more of the total marks available in an examination before 1st April 1991.”, and\n(d) in Schedules 1 and 2, in the heading to Part II, for the word “Test” there shall be substituted the word “Examination”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/436; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1985/1176, 1991/369 and 1992/187."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2365/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:15:32.175999+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}