Apprenticeship Act, 1959

Apprenticeship classification rules.

24.—(1) Where An Chomhairle makes an order under section 22 of this Act in relation to a trade—

(a) An Chomhairle shall make rules declaring that employment in the trade of any specified class or classes of persons in a specified manner shall constitute employment by way of apprenticeship in the trade, and

(b) until those rules are made, no other rules shall be made under this Act in relation to the trade.

(2) The employment declared by rules under this section to constitute employment by way of apprenticeship in a trade shall for the purposes of this Act be employment by way of apprenticeship in the trade.