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Education of apprentices.
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26.—(1) An apprenticeship committee may make representations to the Minister for Education with a view to the provision by the vocational education committee whose functional area is co-terminous with or included in or includes the district of such apprenticeship committee of courses of instruction in the nature of technical education of a type suitable for apprentices engaged in the designated trade for which such apprenticeship committee is established, and that Minister may, if having regard to all the circumstances he considers that effect should be given to such representations or any part thereof, forward such representations to such vocational education committee for its consideration.
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(2) Where a course of instruction in the nature of technical education provided by a vocational education committee is available for any apprentice employed in an apprenticeship district in a designated trade and such course is held within the normal working hours of such apprentice and at a place within a distance of three miles from the premises at which such apprentice is so employed measured according to the shortest way lawfully and conveniently available for him, the apprenticeship committee for such district for the purposes of such trade may, if it considers such course suitable, make an order (in this section referred to as an attendance order) in the prescribed form requiring such apprentice to attend such course.
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(3) Whenever an attendance order is duly made in relation to an apprentice and such order is personally served on such apprentice, it shall be the duty of such apprentice to comply with such order and if he fails so to do he shall, unless he satisfies the Court that such failure was due to sickness or other unavoidable cause, be guilty of an offence under this section.
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(4) Whenever an attendance order is duly made in relation to an apprentice and such order is personally served on the employer of such apprentice, it shall be the duty of such employer, if such apprentice is attending or desires to attend the course of instruction which he is required by such order to attend, to afford,such apprentice time and liberty to attend such course of instruction without any deduction from wages or any addition to the hours of employment or reckoning such time as lost, and if such employer fails or neglects to comply with the requirements of this sub-section he shall be guilty of an offence under this section.
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(5) Every person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction thereof in the case of a first offence to a fine not exceeding twenty shillings, and in the case of a second or any subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding forty shillings.
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(6) Any fees which may be payable to a vocational education committee by an apprentice in respect of a course of instruction which he is attending in pursuance of an attendance order shall be paid on behalf of such apprentice by the apprenticeship committee by which such order was made.
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