Apprenticeship Act, 1931

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Records of overtime wages paid to apprentices.

24.—(1) Where any rules regulating the minimum rates of overtime wages made by an apprenticeship committee are for the time being in force, it shall be the duty of every employer who carries on in the district of such committee the designated trade for which such committee is established and employs any apprentice in such trade to keep such records of overtime wages paid and of time worked on overtime as are necessary to show that such rules are being complied with in relation to such apprentice.

(2) If any employer—

(a) fails or neglects to keep such records as are required by this section to be kept; or

(b) wilfully or negligently makes in such records any entry which is false or misleading in any material particular,

he shall be guilty of an offence under this section and be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding six pounds and also, in case of failure or neglect to keep such records, to a fine not exceeding three pounds for every day during which such failure or neglect continues after conviction.