Cap. 343 Art. 37Making of schemes.

(1) The Minister may, after consulting the Corporation, by regulations under this Part make a scheme or schemes for regulating the conditions of employment and training of apprentices and trainees. Every such scheme may in particular prescribe: the circumstances under which those variations may be allowed;

(c) the rates according to which apprentices and trainees shall be remunerated, the circumstances under which those rates may be reduced or shall be increased, and the extent of the reduction or increase: Provided that no rate based upon the quantity of work done shall be prescribed except in the last year of apprenticeship or traineeship;

(d) the classes of instruction which apprentices or trainees shall attend and the number of hours per week, whether within or outside their ordinary working hours, and the period during which they shall attend such classes;

(e) the practical training which employers shall provide for apprentices and trainees in their employ;

(f) the proficiency tests or examinations which apprentices or trainees shall undergo from time to time;

(g) the maximum number of ordinary working hours which apprentices or trainees may be required or permitted to work during any week or on any day, and the days on which, the hours on any day before or after which and the intervals during which no apprentice or trainee may be required or permitted to work;

(h) the maximum period of overtime which apprentices or trainees may be required or permitted to work during any specified period, and the rates according to which they shall be remunerated in respect of overtime;

(i) the number of paid holidays to be allowed to apprentices or trainees during any year of apprenticeship or traineeship and the rates according to which they shall be remunerated in respect of such holidays;

(j) the circumstances under which an employer shall pay additional remuneration to any apprentice or trainee in his employment and the amount of the additional remuneration or the manner in which it shall be calculated;

(k) the remuneration and the other conditions of apprenticeship or traineeship in respect of any period during which an apprentice or trainee is unable by reason of any condition of apprenticeship or traineeship or other specified circumstance to render service to his employer during ordinary working hours. the Corporation.

(4) Different conditions of apprenticeship or traineeship may be prescribed under subarticle (1) in respect of different classes of employers or apprentices or trainees, and different designated callings, and in prescribing such different conditions the Minister may apply any method of differentiation he may deem advisable.

(5) The Minister may, in any scheme published under subarticle (1) provide that the conditions of apprenticeship or traineeship therein prescribed or such of the said conditions as may be specified therein shall, as from a date so specified, apply in respect of apprentices or trainees who have entered into an agreement of apprenticeship or traineeship upon or after the date on which the calling concerned was designated and before the date upon which the said conditions come into operation, and no such agreement shall cease to be binding upon the parties thereto by reason of the fact that as a result of the scheme, the conditions of apprenticeship or traineeship applicable in respect of those apprentices or trainees have changed.