{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-england-and-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-england-and-wales-regulations-2004/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/481",
  "legislation_title": "The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (England and Wales) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-england-and-wales-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Qualification for appointment",
  "text": "Those general requirements are that\n(a) he is of good character;\n(b) he has attained the age of 18 years;\n(c) either—\n(i) he has attained such qualifications in educational or vocational subjects as the fire authority maintaining the brigade may require, being such qualifications as necessitate a reasonable standard of proficiency in communication and numeracy and such other subjects, if any, as the authority may require; or\n(ii) the fire authority is satisfied that he is of such educational standard that it is unnecessary for him to attain any such qualification; and\n(d) a medical practitioner selected by the fire authority is satisfied that his general state of health and fitness is satisfactory to carry out the duties of the role.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/481/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:31:40.048617+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."
}