Extended Skill Training Scheme

L.N. 108 of 2003

EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 343)

Extended Skill Training Scheme

(Amendment) Regulations, 2003

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 37 of the

Employment and Training Services Act, the Deputy Prime Minister

and Minister for Social Policy, after consulting the Employment and

Training Corporation, and with the concurrence of the Minister of

Finance, has made the following regulations>-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Extended Skill

Training Scheme (Amendment) Regulations, 2003 and they shall be

read and construed as one with the Extended Skill Training Scheme

Regulations, 1998, hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) Regulation 2 hereof shall be deemed to have come into

force on the 1st June, 2002 and regulation 3 on the 1st January, 2003.

Regulation 9 of the principal regulations shall be amended

as follows>-

(a) for sub-regulation (1) thereof there shall be substituted

the following>-

(1) An apprentice under this Scheme shall be

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entitled to a maintenance grant and a wage as follows>-

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(a)

during the first year of the apprenticeship -

(i) a grant of Lm140 paid on a once-only

basis to cover expenses related to the purchase of

educational equipment,

(ii) a fixed maintenance grant of Lm40 per

month made available during the academic year,

and

(iii) a Lm100 per month, outside the

academic year payable to apprentices participating

in on-the-job training with an employer’s

establishment, approved by the Corporation

(b) during the second year of the

apprenticeship -

(i) apprentices attending full-time at the

educational establishment shall be eligible to (a)

(ii) and (iii) above< while

(ii) apprentices attending part-time at the

educational establishment shall be eligible for the

following -

a maintenance grant of Lm40 per month

for twelve months paid by the Government,

and

a wage of Lm1,070 per annum paid by

the employer<

(c)

during the third year of the apprenticeship -

(i) a maintenance grant of Lm40 per month

for twelve months paid by the Government, and

(ii) a wage of Lm1,120 per annum paid by

the employer<

(d) during the fourth year of the apprenticeship -

(i) a wage of Lm1,650 per annum paid by

the employer.”<

(b) for sub-regulations (3) and (4) thereof there shall be

substituted the following>-

“(3) From the year of the apprenticeship that

apprentices become eligible to initiate their on-the-job

training, apprentices will be entitled to half the annual statutory

bonus payable in accordance with article 29 of the Conditions

of Employment (Regulation) Act. The bonus is payable by

the employer.

(4) Regulations 11, 12, 13 and 14 of these regulations

shall apply from the year of the apprenticeship that the

apprentice shall become eligible to initiate the on-the-job

training.”< and

(c) for sub-regulation (6) thereof there shall be

substituted the following>-

“(6) (a) First year apprentices who are eligible

to start their on-the-job training during the second year,

shall not be entitled to the maintenance grant during the

period outside the academic year, unless they attend for

practical training at an establishment approved by the

Corporation.

(b) The same principle as above applies to

those second year apprentices who are eligible to

start their on-the-job training during their third year

of apprenticeship.”.

3. For regulation 10 of the principal regulations there shall be

substituted the following>-

“10. Apprentices shall be entitled to National Holidays with

full pay and to all Public Holidays with full pay and to such working

days vacation leave calculated as follows>-

Two days of vacation leave for every twenty days

attendance at the employerís establishment, accumulated as

on-the-job training.

The employer shall not grant such days of vacation leave

on any day during which the apprentice is required to attend

an educational establishment in accordance with the

provisions of regulation 6 of these regulations.”.

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