Apprenticeship Act, 1959
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Number to be taken into employment by way of apprenticeship. |
38.—(1) An apprenticeship committee may, after consultation with An Chomhairle, determine the number of persons that, during a specified period, is to be taken into employment by way of apprenticeship in the trade, for which the committee is established in the district of the committee and the committee, if it so thinks proper, may, before the expiration of such period, make, after consultation with An Chomhairle, a further determination altering the number previously determined. | |
(2) Where an apprenticeship committee determines, under subsection (1) of this section, a number, the committee shall arrange for the taking into employment by way of apprenticeship in the trade, for which the committee is established, in the district of the committee of that number in the period specified in the determination and for that purpose may, if it is satisfied— | ||
(a) that a sufficient number of persons is not being taken into such employment, in the period specified in the determination, in the trade and in the district, and | ||
(b) that a person who carries on the trade in the district has the facilities for training persons by way of apprenticeship in the trade and in the district and is, without reasonable cause, failing to take persons into his employment by way of apprenticeship in the trade and in the district, | ||
by notice in writing served on that person require him, within a specified period to take into such employment in the trade and in the district a specified number of persons. | ||
(3) An apprenticeship committee shall not exercise the power conferred by subsection (2) of this section for the purpose of making any arrangement under section 52 of this Act. |