Enclosure No. 4
A BILL
To
Amend the Apprenticeship Ordinance.
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent
of the Legislative Council thereof.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Apprenticeship (Amendment) Short title and Ordinance 1980 and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed commencement. by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.
2.
The principal Ordinance is amended in Part IV by adding after Addition of new section 14 the following-
"Preference to be given to registered apprentices.
14A. Where the Commissioner makes an attendance order in relation to a registered apprentice, the technical institution specified in the order shall give preference to the registered apprentice, if he has attained the minimum educa- tional requirements for entrance to the course, over other candidates who are not registered apprentices, for positions on the course.".
section 14A.
(Cap. 47.)
3. Section 17 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting Amendment of subsection (1) and substituting the following-
"(1) An employer who enters into a contract of apprenticeship that is not required to be registered under section 15(1) or 16(1) may, if the contract is in a form similar to that provided for in section 8, send the contract at any time to the Commissioner for registration under this Ordinance, and the Commissioner may, subject to sub- sections (2) and (3), register that contract.”.
section 17.
4. Section 30(2)(d) of the principal Ordinance is amended by insert- Amendment of ing after "parties" the following-
"unless the Commissioner is satisfied that a shorter period of notice would be beneficial to the apprentice".
5. Section 31 of the principal Ordinance is amended—
(a) by being renumbered as subsection (1);
(b) in subsection (1)(i) by inserting after "trade" the following-
"or in the trade in respect of which the apprentice was registered prior to his disqualification";
(c) by deleting subsection (1)(ii) and substituting the following-
"(ii) attending the course of instruction at a technical in- stitution specified by the Commissioner in the original attendance order."; and
(d) by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection—
"(2) The Commissioner shall give written notice of the disqualification of an apprentice under this section to the technical institution at which the apprentice was attending prior to his disqualification and may send copies of the notice of the disqualification of an apprentice to any other technical institution that provides a course in respect of which the disqualification applies.".
section 30.
Amendment of section 31.