(1) The Director of Operations must, by 30 April of every year, develop exercises and training for registered members to carry out during the following financial year to ensure that every registered member is appropriately trained and qualified to carry out the emergency activities and operations that he or she may be required to carry out as a registered member in that year.
(2) In developing the exercises and training for registered members to carry out, the Director of Operations must have regard to, and give priority to, the expected needs of the Service and the Victorian community in the following financial year.
(3) Without limiting sub-regulation (1), the exercises and training developed under that sub-regulation may provide for the testing of a registered member to determine whether the registered member has the necessary fitness to carry out the emergency activities and operations that that registered member may be required to carry out.