Hong Kong Ordinances

APPRENTICESHIP ORDINANCE - SECT 7

Existing employment of young persons

(1) Where a young person is in employment as an apprentice under a
contract of apprenticeship in a trade or occupation on the date when such
trade or occupation is specified as a designated trade, the employer may
continue to employ such apprentice if the contract has been registered under
section 17. (Replaced 13 of 1982 s. 5)

(2) Where a young person is in employment as an apprentice under a
contract of apprenticeship in a trade or occupation on the date when such
trade or occupation is specified as a designated trade and subsection (1) does
not apply to such contract, the employer shall-

   (a)  register the contract under section 16(1); or

   (b)  obtain an exemption from registration under section 18(2).

(3) Where a young person is in employment in a trade or occupation but not
under a contract of apprenticeship on the date when such trade or occupation
is specified as a designated trade, the employer shall within 60 days after
the date on which the trade or occupation is so specified

(or such further time as the Director may permit),-

   (a)  enter into a contract of apprenticeship with the young person in
        accordance with section 8; or

   (b)  on application made to the Director, obtain an exemption in writing
        from the provisions of section 6(1). (Amended 13 of 1982 s. 11)