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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-amendment-regulation-1991/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/369",
  "legislation_title": "The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Amendment) Regulation 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-amendment-regulation-1991",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotions) Regulations 1978 (“the 1978 Regulations” (as amended, in particular, by the Fire Services (Examinations) Regulations 1985 and by the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1988 (“the 1988 Regulations”)) which relate to the qualifications for appointment or promotion in a fire brigade.\nThe Regulations replace references to a fireman in the 1978 Regulations with references to a firefighter and make a consequential revocation to the interpretation provisions of those regulations. The Regulations also correct a grammatical error in the 1988 Regulations.\nThe Regulations impose an additional qualification, namely, that to become a leading firefighter a member of a brigade must have obtained a certificate in first aid in the three years immediately preceding entry for the practical examination (for promotion to that rank) which he has passed. The regulations also provide that, to be eligible for that examination in the first place, a member must have obtained such a certificate in the three years immediately preceding entry. As a result the first aid test is omitted from that examination and consequential provision is made accordingly.\nThe Regulations provide that a member of a brigade who has entered for, but failed to take, all the papers in a writteh examination specified in the Regulations is to be ineligible to take that examination in the following year. The Regulations also provide that a person who has obtained less than 25% of the overall marks obtainable in the same written examination in two successive years is to be ineligible to take that examination in the following year.\nThe Regulations also take account of the replacement of the Local Government Training Board by the Local Government Management Board.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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