Apprenticeship Ordinance

(1)
Where the Director is of the opinion that a registered apprentice has not or will not satisfactorily complete his apprenticeship on grounds
of—
(a)
absence or the apprentice, due to illness or any other reasonable cause, from employment;
(b)
non-attendance of the apprentice, due to illness or any other reasonable cause, at any course of instruction which he is required to attend under an attendance order; or
(c)
failure of the apprentice to pass any examination or test which he is required to pass,
the Director may extend the period of apprenticeship specified in the contract of apprenticeship for a further period not exceeding one year.
(2)
Where the Director extends the period of apprenticeship under subsection (1) he
shall—
(a)
enter in the register and in any copy of the contract of apprenticeship produced to him a note of the extended period; and
(b)
notify in writing the parties to the contract and, if necessary, the technical institution concerned of the extended period and the grounds on which the period was extended.