Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Scotland) Regulations 1978 (“the 1978 Regulations”) (as amended in particular by the Fire Services (Examinations) Regulations 1985 (S.I. 1985/1176) and by the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/409)) which relate to, inter alia, the examinations for promotion in a fire brigade.

The main effect of the amendments made by these Regulations is to ensure that a member of a brigade will not be eligible to enter for a practical examination specified in Part II of Schedule 1 or 2 to the 1978 Regulations if, in the immediately preceding year (but after 1st January 1993), he entered for the examination in question but attended no part of that examination. The Regulations also have the effect of revoking a spent transitional provision, and they amend the heading of Part II of the above-mentioned Schedules.