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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-8",
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  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Qualification for appointment",
  "text": "For the purposes of regulation 7, a reference to another brigade includes in relation to England and Wales, an employee of a fire and rescue authority under Part 1 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 and, in relation to Northern Ireland, a member of a brigade under The Fire Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1984.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 21. Reference to a fire and rescue authority includes an authority under section 1 or a combined fire and rescue authority under sections 2 or 4 of that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1984/1821 (N.I.11), to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/527/regulation/8",
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  },
  "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."
}