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the case: he wasn't on an apprentice contract, he was a trainee

at the school.

Therefore, the position is that he was not an

employed person and the Employees Compensation Ordinance does not

apply. However, the authority, before it took in its first trainees,

realise the potentiality of such a problem and they are in fact,

as I understand it, insured to the equivalent sums that would have

been payable under the Employees Compensation Ordinance had the person

concerned been an employee.

Professor Poon:- Will the Government inform this Council if there are

plans of the Government to impose general safety regulations in this

training centre as well as in factories and to ensure that these

regulations are followed?

Secretary for Education and Manpower:- I am sorry I am not quite sure

where that question came from but the answer is in fact the training

centres are not factory industrial undertakings as defined in the

Ordinance. Although we have looked at this problem from time to time,

on the whole we feel the operation of training centres and educational

institutions is so different from that of a factory industrial

undertaking operating for profit that it is better to rely on self

regulation.