
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st January 1993.
2 
Regulation 6 of the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) Regulations 1978 shall be amended as follows:
(a) 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 examina-tion 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 that 25% of the marks available in that examination.”;
(b) in paragraph (6A) for the words “date of the sitting of the final paper in” there shall be substituted the words “end of”;
(c) 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
(d) in Schedules 1 and 2, in the heading to Part II, for the word “Test” there shall be substituted the word “Examination”.
Kenneth Clarke
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
2nd October 1992