Apprenticeship Ordinance

(1)
The Director, with the approval of the Commissioner, may make regulations for
                all or any of the following
purposes—
(Amended
13 of 1982 s. 10
)
(a)
prescribing the terms and conditions to be included in a contract of
                    apprenticeship in a designated trade;
(b)
prescribing the period of probation to be served by apprentices in
                    designated trades and the termination of contracts of apprenticeship during the
                    period of probation;
(c)
prescribing the minimum standard of education required to be attained by
                    persons as a pre-requisite to their employment as apprentices in designated
                    trades;
(d)
prescribing the hours of employment of registered apprentices;
(e)
providing for the frequency and manner of payment of wages to registered
                    apprentices;
(f)
providing for the medical examination of apprentices in designated
                    trades;
(g)
providing for the registration of contracts of apprenticeship and other
                    matters which are required to be registered under this Ordinance and the
                    maintaining of the register;
(h)
prescribing any thing which is to be or may be prescribed under this
                    Ordinance;
(i)
generally for the better carrying out of the provisions and purposes of
                    this Ordinance.
(1A)
The Director, with the approval of the Commissioner, may in writing, in such
                cases as he thinks fit and for such period and subject to such conditions as he may
                specify, exempt any person or class of persons from any regulations made under this
                    section.
(Added
27 of 1984 s. 2
)
(2)
Any regulations made under this section may provide that a contravention of
                specified provisions thereof shall be an offence and may prescribe penalties
                therefor not exceeding a fine at level 2.
(Amended
E.R. 1 of
                2013
)
(3)
All regulations made under subsection (1) shall be submitted to the Chief
                Executive and shall be subject to the approval of the Legislative Council.
(Amended
54 of 2000 s. 3
)