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(6) containing a copy of any entry required to be made under this

Ordinance in the register.

and purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the Commissioner shall be admitted in evidence without further proof on its production in any legal proceedings and-

✪ until the contrary is proved, it shall be presumed that the certificate

is so signed; and

(i) the certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated

therein.

(2) A copy of a contract of apprenticeship or a variation document certified by or on behalf of the Commissioner as a true copy of a contract of apprenticeship or variation document, so the case may be, shall be admitted in evidence without further proof on its production in any legal proceedings and-

(a) until the contrary is proved, it shall be presumed that the certificain

is so signed; and

(b) the certified copy of the contract of apprenticeship or variation

document shall be prime facie evidence of its contents.

44. (1) The Governor may, by notice in the Gazette extend the upper age limit in the definition of "young person" in section 2 from 18 years to an age limit not exceeding 21 years.

(3) Sections 6 and 7 shall not apply to an employer in respect of » person who--

(a) is in his employment in a designated trade at the date when the upper age limit in the definition of "young person" is extended under subsection (1); and

(b) is included within the definition of "young person" by virtue of

the extension,

for so long as the employer continues to employ the young person in that designated trade.

45. The Governor shall by order specify any trade or occupation to be a designated trado.

#6 (1) The Commissioner may, for the purposes of this Ordinance, specify-

(a) the form of contracts of apprenticeship;

(6) the form of register and any other forms required to be specified

under this Ordinance:

(c) the periods of apprenticeship to be served by apprentices in

designated trades;

(d) the skills and operations to be taught to registered apprentises

by employers;

(e) the training programmes to be followed in the teaching of regis-

tered apprentices;

(f) the courses of instruction to be attended by registered apprentices; (g) the special qualifications for the purposes of section 23;

(4) the examinations and tests required to be passed by registered

apprentices prior to the completion of their apprenticeships:

(0) the records to be kept in respect of registered apprentices;

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() any other matters which he thinks it expedient to specify.

(2) The Commissioner may publish in the Gazette any matter specified by him under subsoction (1).

(3) Copies of any form specified by the Commissioner shall be supplied

to an employer free of charge on application to the Commissioner.

47, (1) The Commissioner may make regulations for all or any of the Reguladoos. following purposes~~

(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 apprentice- ship" during the period of probation;

(c) prescribing the minimum standard of education required to be altained by persons as a pre-requisite to their employment as apprentices in designated trades;

(4) proscribing 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:

(5) prescribing any thing which is to be or may be prescribed under

this Ordinance:

(0 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 con- travention of specified provisions thereof shall be an offence and may prescribe penalties therefor oot 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 Legishtive Counci).

the

41. The following provisions of the Employment Ordinance shall Apoterdon of mulatis mutandir, and abject to any specific provisions to the contrary Employment contained in this Ordinance or in a contract of apprenticeship, apply to Ordlaunes. employers, registered apprentices and registered contracts of apprenticeship (p. 573 under this Ordinance--

(2) Part IVA (Protection against anti-union discrimination);

(5) Part V (Payment of wages);

(c) Part VI (Deductions from wages);

(d) Part VII (Sickness allowance);

(e) Part VIII (Holidays with pay); and

() Part IX (Ancillary provisions relating to sickness allowance and

holidays with pay).

49. (1) The Labour Tribunal Ordinance is amended in paragraph 1 Coreguemial of the Schedule-

(a) by deleting at the end of sub-paragraph (a) the following

"or":

surtiendi naeru.

(Cap. 25.)