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Amendment of section 17.

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3. Section 17 of the principal Ordinance is

amended by deleting subsection (1) and substituting

the following

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(1) An employer who enters into a contract

of apprenticeship that is not required to be

registered under section 15(1) or 16(1) may,

if the contract is in a form similar to that

provided for in section 8, send the contract

at any time to the Commissioner for registration

under this Ordinance, and the Commissioner may,

subject to subsections (2) and (3), register

that contract."

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Amendment of section 30.

4.

Section 30(2)(a) of the principal Ordinance is

amended by inserting after "parties" the following

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Amendment of section 31.

"unless the Commissioner is satisfied that a

shorter period of notice would be beneficial

to the apprentice"

5.

- Section 31 of the principal Ordinance is

amended

(a) by being renumbered as subsection (1);

(b)

in subsection (1)(i) by inserting after

"trade" the following

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