Regulation 2 Amendment of the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Scotland) Regulations 1978

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 examination 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 than 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”; and

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