
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 14th April 1997.
2 
In these Regulations “the 1978 Regulations” means the Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) Regulations 1978.
3 
In regulation 4 of the 1978 Regulations, in paragraph (1)—(c), the letters ‘(c)’and‘(e)’shall be omitted.
4 
Regulation 5 of the 1978 Regulations shall be amended as follows:
(a) in paragraph (1)—
(i) in sub-paragraph (b) the words “and shall not have attained” to the end of that paragraph; and
(ii) sub-paragraphs (c) and (e), shall be omitted;
(b) in paragraph (2) in sub-paragraph (b) the letters ‘(c)’and‘(e)’shall be omitted, and
(c) in paragraph (3)—
(i) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted—“
(a) Paragraph (1) (a), (b), (d) and (ee) shall apply also in relation to the qualifications for appointment of a person as a retained member of a brigade”, and
(ii) sub-paragraph (b) shall be omitted.
Blatch
Minister of State
Home Office
19th March 1997