Vocational Education Act, 1930

Technical education in districts to which this Part of this Act applies.

83.—(1) In every district to which this Part of this Act applies, the vocational education committee for such district shall, in every local financial year, provide such and so many courses of instruction in the nature of technical education as such committee shall consider necessary having regard to the number and nature of the designated trades in such district.

(2) Every course of instruction provided under this section by the vocational education committee for a district to which this Part of this Act applies in respect of a designated trade in such district shall consist of such number (not exceeding one hundred and eighty) of hours of instruction in each local financial year as the Minister shall, after consultation with, where there is for the time being an apprenticeship committee for such trade whose functional area is co-terminous with or includes such district, such aprenticeship committee or, where there is for the time being no such apprenticeship committee, representatives of employers and employees in such district in such trade, approve.

(3) Every course of instruction provided under this section shall be distributed as regards times and seasons in such manner as may best suit the designated trades in respect of which it is provided.

(4) The instruction to be given at a course of instruction provided under this section shall be such as the vocational education committee providing such course shall, with the approval of the Minister, direct.

(5) Every vocational education committee providing courses of instruction under this section shall make public by advertisement or otherwise the dates for the commencement and termination of such courses and the times and places at which the instruction comprised in such courses will be given.