Apprenticeship Act, 1931

Apprenticeship districts and apprenticeship committees.

3.—(1) Whenever the Minister makes a special order declaring a trade to be a designated trade in any area (whether such area does or does not extend to the whole of Saorstát Eireann) the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) the Minister shall by another order forthwith either constitute such area to be an apprenticeship district for the purposes of such designated trade or divide such area into two or more apprenticeship districts for the purposes of such designated trade;

(b) there shall be established and maintained in every such apprenticeship district an apprenticeship committee for such designated trade to perform in such district and in relation to such trade the functions assigned by this Act to apprenticeship committees.

(2) Before making an order under this section constituting an area to be an apprenticeship district or dividing an area into two or more apprenticeship districts for the purposes of a designated trade which is a trade-board trade, the Minister shall consult the trade-board for such trade.

(3) References in this Act to the district of an apprenticeship committee shall be construed as referring to the apprenticeship district in which such committee is established by this section.