S.L. 594.2 ст. 6Period of apprenticeship.

The period of apprenticeship shall be of six years:

Provided that six months shall be deducted from the said period of six years, to a total of not more than two years, in respect of:

(i) each year of attendance by the prospective apprentice, following the attainment by him of the twelfth year of his age, in a full-time tailoring course in the Government Tailoring School or in any other school or institute of comparable standard approved by the Minister responsible for labour, such attendance being certified as satisfactory by the Director of the school or institution concerned; and

(ii) each year of learnership in the calling of tailor undergone by the prospective apprentice with the permission of the Director:

Provided that in respect of contracts of apprenticeship entered into after the 1st day of January, 1970, for the words "six years" wherever they occur in this article, there shall be substituted the words "five years".