The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Amendment) Regulations 1993

Made: 26th November 1993

Laid before Parliament: 7th December 1993

Coming into force: 1st January 1994

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 18(1) of the Fire Services Act 1947[^f00001], I hereby, after consultation with the Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council, make the following Regulations:

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 1st January 1994.

2

The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) Regulations 1978[^f00002] (hereafter in these Regulations referred to as “the 1978 Regulations”) shall be amended as follows—

• (a) for the provisions contained in Part II of Schedule 1 (practical examination for promotion to the rank of leading firefighter) there shall be substituted the provisions set out in Part I of the Schedule to these Regulations, and

• (b) for the provisions contained in Part II of Schedule 2 (practical examination for promotion to the rank of sub-officer) there shall be substituted the provisions set out in Part II of the Schedule to these Regulations.

3

For the purposes of regulation 6(6)(a) of the 1978 Regulations (ineligibility to enter examination on account of entry for, but non-attendance at, that examination in the previous year), as regards eligibility to enter for a practical examination before 1st January 1995, the reference to the examination in question shall be taken to include a reference to the corresponding practical examination under Schedule 1 or 2, as the case may be, for which the member entered before 1st January 1994.

SCHEDULE

PART I — PRACTICAL EXAMINATION FOR PROMOTION TO THE RANK OF LEADING FIREFIGHTER

PART II — PRACTICAL EXAMINATION FOR PROMOTION TO THE RANK OF SUB-OFFICER

Signed

Michael Howard — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 26th November 1993

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 1st January 1994, introduce revised practical examinations (set out in the Schedule to these Regulations) for promotion in a fire brigade to the ranks of leading firefighter and sub-officer save that, in the latter case, the reference to an exercise in fireground procedure and control (set out in paragraph (b) in Part II of the Schedule) remains unaltered.The Regulations also make a transitional provision with regard to provisions (governing eligibility to enter a practical examination) which operate by reference to non-attendance at the examination in question in the previous year.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1947 c. 41 as amended by the Fire Services Act 1959 (c. 44).

[^f00002]: S.I.1978/436; the relevant amending instruments are S.I.1985/1176; 1991/369; 1992/182; and 1992/2365.