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ACT I OF 2018 ACT I OF 2018 APPRENTICESHIP ACT, 2018 An Act to make provisions for promoting, developing and regulating systematic apprenticeship programmes in the establishments for securing certain minimum standards of skill [Gazette of Pakistan Extraordinary, Part I, 4th January, 2018] No. F. 9(25)/2017-Legis, dated 2-1-2018.---The following Act of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) received the assent of the President on 29th December, 2017 and is hereby published for general information:- WHEREAS it is expedient to make provisions for promoting, developing and regulating systematic apprenticeship programmes in the establishments and for securing certain minimum standards of skill and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto; 7. Obligations of employers.---Subject to other provisions of this Act and rules made thereunder, an employer shall- (a) be bound to ensure proper compliance with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder in his establishment; (b) introduce and operate an apprenticeship programme in his establishment within such time as may be prescribed; (c) train apprentices in a proportion of minimum five percent or more of the total number of persons employed on an average, in his establishment, or in such other proportion as the competent authority may, by order in writing determine in respect of his establishment: Provided that, if an employer chooses not to train apprentices in proportion as required under this Act, he shall pay training contribution to apprenticeship fund which shall be in proportion to training cost he would have otherwise incurred in meeting his liability or he may get required number of persons trained from any other establishment at his cost; (d) be responsible to ensure that an apprentice receives within the normal working hours related theoretical instructions to the extent as may be specified by the authority; (e) bear the cost of training of apprentices during his apprenticeship within the industry, excluding the cost of training at an institute, which shall be borne by the authority; (f) not, without the approval in writing of the competent authority, engage any person as an apprentice who has been an apprentice with another employer and has left his apprenticeship or been terminated by such other employer on disciplinary grounds; and (g) be responsible to notify well in time an apprenticeship opportunity including job openings in his establishment on designated websites of the authority in a manner as the competent authority may specify.