GAS MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTION SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 11

GAS MANUFACTURE AND

DISTRIBUTION SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 11

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 594.09

GAS MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTION

SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 11

24th November, 1953

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 634 of 1953, as amended by Government

Notice 217 of 1957, Act XLIV of 1965, and Legal Notices 32 of 1967, 119

of 1969, 47 and 77 of 1970, 124 of 1976, 61 and 86 of 1977, 51 of 1978, 80

of 1979 and 424 of 2007.

The title of this Scheme is the Gas Manufacture and

Distribution Scheme - Scheme No. 11.

In this scheme, unless the context otherwise requires, the

words and expressions used shall have the same meanings as those

assigned to them by the Employment and Training Services Act.

This scheme shall apply to the occupation of gas fitter with

Enemalta (hereinafter referred to as "the employer") which

occupation is hereby designated as a calling within the meaning

and for the purposes of the said Act.

No person may be employed as an apprentice under this

scheme unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Director that

such person has either completed the fourth year of a Secondary

School or the full Trade School Course.

The employer engaging apprentices under this scheme

shall undertake to teach them and to grant them facilities to learn

the follovaing processes

(1) General - Dismantling, assembly and fitting of

stationary and working parts of gas meters and

appliances including marking out, hack sawing,

drilling by hand, chisel shearing, filing to instrument

measure, countersinking and counterboring; use of

appropriate tools and measuring instruments and test

gauges; detection of faults in meters and appliances.

(2) Main Drain pipe laying - Laying of gas mains; making

of branch connections and fittings for syphons and

valves; closing of joints by caulking; sealing of

flanges; cutting of threads.

(3) Internal fitting - Laying of gas pipes from main supply

and connecting same to meters, cookers, geysers,

heaters and other domestic appliances, including

cutting of piping, jointing, caulking, sealing of

flanges, and cutting of threads.

(4) Safety precautions.

(5) During the last year of apprenticeship the employer

may cause the apprentice to specialise in either meter

repairs, main pipe laying or internal fitting.

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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 deduction of not more than two years,

in respect of each complete year of attendance by the prospective

apprentice, following the attainment by him of the twelfth year of

his age, at any metal work of mechanical engineering course in a

Government technical day-school, such attendance being certified

as 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 "six

years" wherever they occur in this article, there shall be substituted

the words "four years".

The wages payable to apprentices in the calling to which

this scheme applies shall be as follows

Year

Wages per week

First

€24.57

Second

€30.79

Third

€37.04

Fourth

€43.26.

(1) The hours of work of apprentices employed under this

scheme shall not exceed eight hours in any one day

Provided that employers may employ apprentices on

overtime with the approval of the Director, who may impose such

conditions as he may deem fit, at the following rates of

remuneration

(a) for all time worked in excess of eight hours daily -

time and a half;

(b) for all time worked in excess of forty-eight hours in

any week, exclusive of any time paid for at overtime

rates - time and a half;

(c) for all time worked on Sundays and any customary

holiday - double time.

(2) Apprentices under 16 years of age may not be enployed

between 11 p.m. of any one day and 6 a.m. of the next following

day.

Apprentices shall be granted one whole day of rest in every

calendar week.

Apprentices shall be entitled, in every calendar year, to -

(a) all customary holidays with full pay, and

(b) after three months in employment, vacation leave of

such number of working days with full pay as is

equivalent to the number of working days as that

particular apprentice should normally attend to work

during a period of four weeks

Provided that -

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(a) all apprentices who have been in employment for less

than one year shall be entitled to such part of the said

vacation leave as is in proportion to the number of

months in employment, and

(b) vacation leave may not normally be availed of on any

day when the apprentice is required to attend school

for theoretical instruction.

(1) After completing the first six months of

apprenticeship, apprentices shall be entitled to twenty days sick

leave on full pay in every calendar year less any sickness benefit to

which they may be entitled under the Social Security Act

Provided that a medical certificate certifying incapacity for

work covering the period of absence is produced to the employer,

who may require his medical practitioner to examine the

apprentice.

(2) Apprentices shall not be entitled to the payment of any

wages for the first three days of every period of sick leave

Provided that the number of unpaid days of sick leave shall

not be deducted from the entitlement of paid sick leave.

Apprentices shall be allowed two days paid leave on the

death of any of the following: the wife, husband, mother, father (or

the person who at the time was in fact acting as the mother or

father), son, daughter, brother and sister of the apprentice.

In this scheme, "customary holidays" means the days

(other than Sundays) declared for the time being to be public

holidays by or under the National Day and other Public Holidays

Act.

An apprentice shall be entitled to one year injury leave on

full pay, less the full amount of any injury benefit to which an

apprentice may be entitled in terms of the Social Security Act, if he

is injured during the actual discharge of his duty and such injury is

not due to contributory negligence on his part or to contravention

by him of safety rules laid down by the management.