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Apprenticeship
[1982 Ed.
Regulations.
Application of the Employment Ordinance. (Cap. 57.)
47. (1) The Director, with the approval of the Commissioner, may make regulations for all or any of the following purposes- (Amended, 13 of 1982, s. 10)
(a) prescribing the terms and conditions to be included in a contract of apprenticeship in a designated trade;
(b) prescribing the period of probation to be served by apprentices in designated trades and the termination of contracts of apprenticeship during the period of probation;
(c) prescribing the minimum standard of education required to be attained by persons as a pre-requisite to their employment as apprentices in designated trades;
(d) prescribing the hours of employment of registered apprentices;
(e) providing for the frequency and manner of payment of wages to registered apprentices;
(f) providing for the medical examination of apprentices in designated trades;
(g) providing for the registration of contracts of apprenticeship and other matters which are required to be registered under this Ordinance and the maintaining of the register;
(h) prescribing anything which is to be or may be prescribed under this Ordinance;
(i) generally for the better carrying out of the provisions and purposes of this Ordinance.
(2) Any regulations made under this section may provide that a contravention of specified provisions thereof shall be an offence and may prescribe penalties therefor not exceeding a fine of $5,000.
(3) All regulations made under subsection (1) shall be submitted to the Governor and shall be subject to the approval of the Legislative Council.
48. The following provisions of the Employment Ordinance shall, mutatis mutandis, and subject to any specific provisions to the contrary contained in this Ordinance or in a contract of apprenticeship, apply to employers, registered apprentices and registered contracts of apprenticeship under this Ordinance---
(a) Part IVA (Protection against anti-union discrimination);
(b) Part V (Payment of wages);
(c) Part VI (Deductions from wages);
(d) Part VII (Sickness allowance);
(e) Part VIII (Holidays with pay);
(ea) Part VIIIA (Annual leave with pay); (Added, 43 of 1980, s. 6)
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