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the case: he wasn't on an apprentice contract, he was a trainee
at the school.
Therefore, the position is that he was not an
employed person and the Employees Compensation Ordinance does not
apply. However, the authority, before it took in its first trainees,
realise the potentiality of such a problem and they are in fact,
as I understand it, insured to the equivalent sums that would have
been payable under the Employees Compensation Ordinance had the person
concerned been an employee.
Professor Poon:- Will the Government inform this Council if there are
plans of the Government to impose general safety regulations in this
training centre as well as in factories and to ensure that these
regulations are followed?
Secretary for Education and Manpower:- I am sorry I am not quite sure
where that question came from but the answer is in fact the training
centres are not factory industrial undertakings as defined in the
Ordinance. Although we have looked at this problem from time to time,
on the whole we feel the operation of training centres and educational
institutions is so different from that of a factory industrial
undertaking operating for profit that it is better to rely on self
regulation.