Tuesday, January 13, 1976
TRAINING LEVY ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
A training levy of 0.25 per cent of the value of all construction
work undertaken in Hong Kong and payable by the contractors concerned will
come into effect on Sunday (January 18).
Announcing this today, the Chairman of the Construction Industry
Training Authority, Mr. Jeffrey Yeh, said the levy would be collected by the authority to establish and maintain a training entre to provide one-year
full-time basic training for about 660 craft trainees in the key construction
trades.
"The training centre will play a major role in ensuring not only that the industry will be adequately supplied with trained skilled workers, but also
that it will become more efficient," he said.
Construction work on the training centre, located in Tai Yip Street,
Kwun Tong, is expected to begin next month.
This rate of 0.25 per cent, announced in the Gazette last month, is
imposed under the Industrial Training (Construction Industry) Ordinance 1975.
Contractors and authorised people responsible for all construction
work started on or after September 5, 1975, the date when the Ordinance became
effective, are obliged to notify the Training Authority in a prescribed form
(Form 1 in the regulations).
Undor the Ordinance, contractors are required to notify the Authority
within 14 days after a payment is made to them in respect of any construction
work.
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