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Apprenticeship Act, 1931

Restriction on number of apprentices.

20.—(1) Where any rules regulating the number of apprentices made by an apprenticeship committee are for the time being in force and such rules fix a standard number in relation to any specified employer, it shall not be lawful for such employer to take into his employment by way of apprenticeship in the district of such committee in the trade for which such committee is established any person unless—

(a) either no person is then employed by such employer as an apprentice in such trade in such district or the number of persons then so employed is less than such standard number; and

(b) such taking into employment would have the effect of making the total number of apprentices so employed by him equal to such standard number.

(2) If any such employer employs by way of apprenticeship any person in contravention of this section he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.