Hong Kong Ordinances

APPRENTICESHIP ORDINANCE - SECT 23

Apprenticeship period may be shortened where special qualification is obtained

(1) Where a person, before entering into a contract of  apprenticeship in a
designated trade, obtains any special qualification specified by the Director
in respect of that designated trade for the purposes of this section, the
Director may reduce the minimum period of apprenticeship specified for that
designated trade by any period not exceeding one year.

(2) Where the Director reduces the period of apprenticeship under subsection
(1) he shall-

   (a)  enter in the register and in any copy of the contract of 
        apprenticeship produced to him a note of the reduced period; and

   (b)  notify the parties to the contract in writing of the reduced period
        and the grounds on which the period was reduced. (Amended 13 of 1982
        s. 11)