{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-scotland-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-scotland-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1437",
  "legislation_title": "The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-scotland-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the 1978 Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 5 of the 1978 Regulations–\n(a) in paragraph (1), there shall be omitted–\n(i) in sub-paragraph (b) the words “and shall not have attained the age of 31 years”; and\n(ii) sub-paragraphs (c) and (e);\n(b) in paragraph (3), the letters “(c)” and “(e)” shall be omitted; and\n(c) for paragraph (4), there shall be substituted the following:–\n“(4) Sub-paragraphs (a), (b), (d) and (ee) of paragraph (1) of this regulation shall apply also in relation to the qualifications for appointment of a person as a retained member of a brigade and, for this purpose, a retained member of a brigade means a person who is to serve therein as a part-time member thereof on terms under which he is or may be required to engage in firefighting in return for an annual retaining fee.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1437/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:07:38.569692+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."
}