Cap. 343 Art. 17Powers of the Corporation in relation to training.

(1) For the purpose of encouraging adequate training through courses or other schemes contemplated by article 16, the

Corporation may -

(a) provide or secure the provision of such courses and other schemes as it may consider adequate, having regard to any courses or schemes otherwise available;

(b) approve such courses and schemes provided by other persons;

(c) from time to time consider such employments as appear to require consideration and publish recommendations with regard to the nature and length of the training for any such employment, the further education to be required with the training, the persons by and to whom the training ought to be given, the standards to be attained as a result of the training and the methods of ascertaining whether those standards have been attained;

(d) make arrangements for the application of selection tests and of tests or other methods for ascertaining the attainment of any standards recommended by it and may award certificates of the attainment of those standards;

(e) assist any person in finding facilities for being trained where it cannot provide such training;

(f) carry on or assist other persons in carrying on research into any matter relating to training.

(2) The Corporation may enter into contracts of service or of apprenticeship with any person who intends to attend courses or avail himself of any other scheme it has provided.

(3) The Corporation may -

(a) at the request of the Authority provide such other

(c) enter into agreements with employers relative to payments by them to the Corporation in respect of the exercise by the Corporation of any of its functions.

(4) The Corporation may -

(a) make grants or loans to persons providing courses or other schemes approved by the Corporation;

(b) pay fees to persons providing further education in respect of persons who receive it in association with their training in courses or other schemes provided or approved by the Corporation;

(c) make payments to persons in connection with arrangements under which they or their employees make use of courses or other schemes provided or approved by the Corporation.