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Vocational Training Council
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(h) establish, operate and maintain technical institutes and
industrial training centres;
(i) provide or approve training courses and other facilities for
technical education and industrial training:
(ƒ) help candidates for industrial training to find suitable
training facilities:
(k) establish standards of skill to be achieved in any particular trade, conduct examinations and tests in respect of any trade and award certificates of attendance and competence:
(/) with the approval of the Chief Secretary make use of personnel, facilities and services of any department of the Government:
(m) allocate funds of the Council to any person for the purpose of providing any training course approved by the Council other than a training course which that person is responsible for providing under any other Ordinance or is providing in order to meet his own requirements for trained personnel;
(n) employ staff and remunerate them;
(0) engage technical and professional advisers to advise on any matter arising out of or connected with any of the functions of the Council, and remunerate them;
(p) pay allowances to persons attending courses provided or
approved by the Council;
(q) pay allowances to persons partaking in the provision of training courses provided or approved by the Council;
(r) pay such expenses as it thinks fit to any member, other than a public officer, of the Council, of a council com- mittee or of a training board or general committee;
(s) acquire, hold and lease any property required for the discharge of its functions under this Ordinance and, sub- ject to the terms and condition upon which such property is held, dispose of it;
(1) receive funds and donations lawfully given and consistent
with its objects under this Ordinance:
(u) with the approval of the Financial Secretary borrow or otherwise raise money on such security as may be neces- sary, and, for that purpose, charge all or any part of the property of the Council;
(v) charge fees for any services or the use of any facility
provided by the Council; and
(i) enter into any contract in furtherance of its objects or the
exercise of its functions.