Apprenticeship Ordinance

(1)
Where a person, before entering into a contract of apprenticeship in a designated trade, obtains any special qualification specified by the Director in respect of that designated trade for the purposes of this section, the Director may reduce the minimum period of apprenticeship specified for that designated trade by any period not exceeding one year.
(2)
Where the Director reduces 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 reduced period; and
(b)
notify the parties to the contract in writing of the reduced period and the grounds on which the period was reduced.