{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/527",
  "legislation_title": "The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“appointment” includes appointment on promotion;\n“brigade” means a fire brigade maintained by a fire authority in Scotland under the provisions of the Fire Services Act 1947;\n“fire authority” means–\n(a) a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, or\n(b) a joint board constituted under an administration scheme made by virtue of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 or section 36 of the Fire Services Act 1947;\n“IPDS” means the Integrated Personal Development System as described in Scottish Fire Service Circular 2/2002 published on 6th August 2002;\n“National Occupational Standards” means the standards published by the Emergency Fire Services Vocational Council in August 2001 and April 2003;\n“permanent appointment” means an appointment for more than twelve months; and\n“role” means a role listed in Schedule 1.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1994 c. 39 (“the 1994 Act”)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1973 c. 65; section 147 of that Act was substituted by section 36 of the 1994 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/527/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:28:28.794428+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."
}