17. Promotion
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(1) In these Regulations “promotion” means promotion to any rank of station officer, subordinate officer and fire fighter.
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(2) All promotions shall be made by the Chief Fire Officer.
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(3) In order to assist the Chief Fire Officer in matters of promotion a Selection Committee may be established consisting of 3 members of the Fire Service appointed by the Chief Fire Officer.
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(4) It shall be the duty of the Selection Committee to interview and examine candidates for promotion and to make such recommendations as they think fit to the Chief Fire Officer, but the Chief Fire Officer shall not be bound to act in accordance with the Selection Committee's recommendations.
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(5) Members of the Fire Service shall be considered for promotion to ranks from that of leading fire fighter on merit, and seniority shall only be taken into account where in the opinion of the Selection Committee candidates for promotion are otherwise of equal merit.
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(6) All members of the Service shall have equal opportunity for promotion regardless of any specialist duties in which they are or may have been engaged.
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(7) A member of the Service shall not be promoted unless he or she has completed 3 years service.
However a member of the Service who has successfully completed an overseas training course approved by the Chief Fire Officer and which is at least equivalent to the specified promotional examination in its entirety shall be exempted from the requirement to be examined for the specified promotion or except in the case where members are recruited under special conditions.
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(8) When a vacancy occurs in any rank from that of leading fire fighter the vacancy shall be notified to all members of the Service and every member holding rank immediately below that in which the vacancy exists shall have the right to become a candidate and to cause himself or herself to be examined for promotion.
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(9) When examining a candidate with a view to assessing his or her suitability for promotion, the Selection Committee shall cause the candidate to take a written, a practical and an oral examination to be set by the Chief Fire Officer all of which shall be so designed as to reveal the candidate's knowledge of the subjects, skill in practical fire fightership and ability to command.
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(10)
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(a) All questions in the written examination shall be set by the Chief Fire Officer who shall cause the question to be kept secret until the commencement of the examination.
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(b) The written examination shall be so prepared that candidates shall have a reasonable opportunity of answering all questions required to be answered in the specified time.
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(11) The oral and practical examinations shall be conducted by the Selection Committee and the records of the examination shall contain details of the questions asked or tasks set, the maximum marks awarded each correct answer or correctly performed task the name of the candidate and the marks obtained by him or her in each question or task.
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(12) The records of all promotion examinations shall be kept by the Chief Fire Officer and a member of the Service who passes any such examination for promotion to a particular rank need not offer himself or herself for examination again for promotion to that rank.
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(13) The fact that a member of the Service has passed a promotion examination shall only qualify him or her to be considered for promotion.
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(14) The Schedule shall not preclude the Chief Fire Officer or other officer acting under the instruction of the Chief Fire Officer from making temporary appointments of station officers, and subordinate officers on a paid or unpaid basis if the exigencies of the Service so require.