Hong Kong Ordinances

APPRENTICESHIP ORDINANCE - SECT 27

Effect of change in partners

(1) Where the employer of a registered apprentice is a partnership and any
change takes place in the partners, the contract of apprenticeship to which
the partnership was a party shall not be determined by such change if the
trade or occupation in which the apprentice was employed is carried on by the
new partners. Such new partners shall be the new employer and the contract
shall be binding on them as if they were a party to the contract in place of
the partnership.

(2) Where under subsection (1) a registered contract of  apprenticeship binds
the new partners, they shall, within 30 days after the date of the change in
the partners, notify the Director in writing of such change and the date
thereof. A notification by any one of the partners shall be sufficient.
(Amended 13 of 1982 s. 11)

(3) The Director shall, on receipt of a notification under subsection (2),
enter in the register- (Amended 13 of 1982 s. 11)

   (a)  a note of the change in the partners and the date thereof; and

   (b)  the names of the new partners.

(4) When the names of the new partners are registered under subsection (3),
the Director shall notify in writing- (Amended 13 of 1982 s. 11)

   (a)  such partners; and

   (b)  the apprentice and his guardian (if any), of such registration.

(5) A new partner who contravenes subsection (2) shall be guilty of an offence
and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $2000.