The Apprentices Act

Qualifications for being engaged as an apprentice

Reservation of training places for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in designated trades

Reservation of training places for Other Backward Classes in designated trades

Contract of apprenticeship

Novation of contract of apprenticeship

Regulation of optional trade

Engagement of apprentices from other States

Period of apprenticeship training

Termination of apprenticeship contract

Number of apprentices for a designated trade

Practical and basic training of apprentices

Related instruction of apprentices

Obligations of employers

Obligations of apprentices

Payment to apprentices

Health, safety and welfare of apprentices

Hours of work, overtime, leave and holidays

Employer‟s liability for compensation for injury

Conduct and discipline

Apprentices are trainees and not workers

Records and returns

Settlement of disputes

Holding of test and grant of certificate and conclusion of training

Offer and acceptance of employment


APPRENTICES AND THEIR TRAINING


Where any apprentices are undergoing training in a
factory, the provisions of Chapters III, IV and V of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948), shall apply in
relation to the health, safety and welfare of the apprentices as if they were workers within the meaning of
that Act and when any apprentices are undergoing training in a mine, the provisions of Chapter V of the
Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952), shall apply in relation to the health and safety of the apprentices as if they
were persons employed in the mine.


LAWGIST

# 14 Health, safety and welfare of apprentices