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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. 4. Obligation of employers.---Subject to the other provisions of this Ordinance and the rules, an employer -- (1) shall be bound to ensure proper compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance and the rules in his under taking; (2) shall, in accordance with the rules, introduce and operate an apprenticeship programme in his under taking and get the programme registered with the competent authority within such time as may be pres cribed; (3) shall train apprentices in the proportion of a minimum of twenty percent. of the total number of persons employed in apprenticeable trades, on an average in his undertaking, or, in such other proportion as the competent authority may, by order in writing, deter mine in respect of his undertaking; (4) who had already introduced an apprenticeship pro gramme in his undertaking prior to the commence ment of this Ordinance shall modify the programme so as to bring it in conformity with the provisions of this Ordinance and the rules and register such modified programme with the competent authority within such time as may be prescribed; (5) shall be responsible to ensure that an apprentice re ceives within the normal working hours related theore tical instruction to the extent of at least twenty percent. of the total working hours; (6) shall initiate and operate an apprenticeship programme entirely at his own cost; and (7) shall not, without the approval in writing of the com petent authority, engage as an apprentice any person who has been an apprentice with another employer and has left his apprenticeship or been discharged by such other employer on disciplinary grounds.