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Vocational Training Council

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(h) establish, operate and maintain technical institutes and

industrial training centres;

(i) provide or approve training courses and other facilities for

technical education and industrial training:

(ƒ) help candidates for industrial training to find suitable

training facilities:

(k) establish standards of skill to be achieved in any particular trade, conduct examinations and tests in respect of any trade and award certificates of attendance and competence:

(/) with the approval of the Chief Secretary make use of personnel, facilities and services of any department of the Government:

(m) allocate funds of the Council to any person for the purpose of providing any training course approved by the Council other than a training course which that person is responsible for providing under any other Ordinance or is providing in order to meet his own requirements for trained personnel;

(n) employ staff and remunerate them;

(0) engage technical and professional advisers to advise on any matter arising out of or connected with any of the functions of the Council, and remunerate them;

(p) pay allowances to persons attending courses provided or

approved by the Council;

(q) pay allowances to persons partaking in the provision of training courses provided or approved by the Council;

(r) pay such expenses as it thinks fit to any member, other than a public officer, of the Council, of a council com- mittee or of a training board or general committee;

(s) acquire, hold and lease any property required for the discharge of its functions under this Ordinance and, sub- ject to the terms and condition upon which such property is held, dispose of it;

(1) receive funds and donations lawfully given and consistent

with its objects under this Ordinance:

(u) with the approval of the Financial Secretary borrow or otherwise raise money on such security as may be neces- sary, and, for that purpose, charge all or any part of the property of the Council;

(v) charge fees for any services or the use of any facility

provided by the Council; and

(i) enter into any contract in furtherance of its objects or the

exercise of its functions.