S.L. 594.4 Art. 6Period of apprenticeship.

The period of apprenticeship shall be of five and a half years:

Provided that six months shall be deducted from the said period of five and a half years, up to a total deduction of not more than two years, in respect of each complete year of attendance by the prospective apprentice, at any electrical course in a Government Technical Day-School, as long as such attendance is certified to be satisfactory by the Director of the School concerned: Provided that in respect of contracts of apprenticeship entered into after the 1st day of January, 1970, for the words "five and one half years" wherever they occur in this article, there shall be substituted the words "five years".