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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;

(j) 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;

(l) 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;

(o) 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 committee 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, subject to the terms and condition upon which such property is held, dispose of it;

(t) 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 necessary, 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

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

exercise of its functions.