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THE APPRENTICESHIP ORDINANCE, 1962 THE APPRENTICESHIP ORDINANCE, 1962 ORDINANCE No. LVI OF 1962 [6th June, 1962] An Ordinance to make provision for promoting, developing and regulating systematic apprenticeship programmes in the in dustries and for securing certain minimum standards of skill. 2. Definitions.---In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,- (a) "apprentice" means a person undergoing training through the system of apprenticeship; (b) "apprenticeable trade" means such trade or occupation as the competent authority may, from time to time, keeping in view- (i) the nature of the trade and the degree of skill involved therein.; and (ii) the amount of practical training and related theo retical instruction necessary for attaining the laid down standards of skill and proficiency in the trade, declare, by notification in the official Gazette, to be an apprenticeable trade for the purposes of this Ordinance; (c) "apprenticeship" means a system of training in which an employer undertakes to employ a person and to train him or have him trained systematically in an apprenticeable trade for a period the duration of which has been fixed in advance and in the course of which the apprentice is bound to work in the employer's service; *[(d) "competent authority" means such officer as the Provincial Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, appoint to be a competent authority for the purposes of this Ordinance;] *[Subs. by A. O., 1964, Art. 2 and Sch., for the original cl. (d).] (e) "employer" means any person who employs five or more persons in an apprenticeable trade in an under taking, either directly or through another person, whether on behalf of himself or any other person, and includes any person who has ultimate control over, or is responsible to the owner thereof for, the affairs of an undertaking; (f) "industrial establishment" shall have the same meaning as assigned to it in the Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance, 1960, XI of 1960: (g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules; (h) "rules" means rules made under this Ordinance; (i) "undertaking" means any industrial establishment wherein fifty or more persons are employed, or were employed on any day of the preceding twelve months.