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Period of apprenticeship.
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12.—(1) Where rules regulating the period of apprenticeship made by an apprenticeship committee are for the time being in force, every person who is employed by way of apprenticeship in the designated trade for which such committee is established and in the district of such committee shall, where such employment commences while such rules are in force and notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, be deemed to be employed under an agreement signed by such person and his employer whereby such employer agrees to employ such person and such person agrees to serve such employer for the period of apprenticeship specified in such rules, but such committee may, if it so thinks fit, release both parties from their respective obligations under the agreement implied by this section or modify such agreement or with the consent of, in case the apprentice has attained the age of eighteen years, the apprentice, and, in case the apprentice has not attained such age, the parent (if any) of the apprentice transfer the benefits and obligations of such employer under such agreement to another employer carrying on in such district such trade.
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(2) In this section the expression “parent” in relation to an apprentice who has not attained the age of eighteen years means the individual having the legal custody of such apprentice and, where owing to the absence of such individual or for any other reason such apprentice is not living with or in the actual custody of such individual, includes the individual with whom such apprentice is living or in whose actual custody such apprentice is.
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