GAS MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTION SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 11 [ S.L.594.09 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 594.09 GAS MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTION SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 11 24th November, 1953 GOVERNMENT NOTICE 634 of 1953, as amended by Government Notice 217 of 1957, Act XLIV of 1965, and Legal Notices 32 of 1967, 119 of 1969, 47 and 77 of 1970, 124 of 1976, 61 and 86 of 1977, 51 of 1978, 80 of 1979 and 424 of
- The title of this Scheme is the Gas Manufacture and Distribution Scheme - Scheme No.
- Citation.
- In this scheme, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and expressions used shall have the same meanings as those assigned to them by the Employment and Training Services Act. Interpretation.
- This scheme shall apply to the occupation of gas fitter with Enemalta (hereinafter referred to as "the employer") which occupation is hereby designated as a calling within the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act. Applicability.
- No person may be employed as an apprentice under this scheme unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Director that such person has either completed the fourth year of a Secondary School or the full Trade School Course. Employment as apprentice. Amended by: XLIV. 1965.
- Substituted by: L.N. 61 of 1977; L.N. 51 of
- The employer engaging apprentices under this scheme shall undertake to teach them and to grant them facilities to learn the follovaing processes: Processes to be learnt.
(1)General - Dismantling, assembly and fitting of stationary and working parts of gas meters and appliances including marking out, hack sawing, drilling by hand, chisel shearing, filing to instrument measure, countersinking and counterboring; use of appropriate tools and measuring instruments and test gauges; detection of faults in meters and appliances.
(2)Main Drain pipe laying - Laying of gas mains; making of branch connections and fittings for syphons and valves; closing of joints by caulking; sealing of flanges; cutting of threads.
(3)Internal fitting - Laying of gas pipes from main supply and connecting same to meters, cookers, geysers, heaters and other domestic appliances, including cutting of piping, jointing, caulking, sealing of flanges, and cutting of threads.
(4)Safety precautions.
(5)During the last year of apprenticeship the employer may cause the apprentice to specialise in either meter repairs, main pipe laying or internal fitting. Cap.
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- The period of apprenticeship shall be of six years: Period of apprenticeship. Amended by: L.N. 119 of
- Provided that six months shall be deducted from the said period of six years, to a total deduction of not more than two years, in respect of each complete year of attendance by the prospective apprentice, following the attainment by him of the twelfth year of his age, at any metal work of mechanical engineering course in a Government technical day-school, such attendance being certified as satisfactory by the Director of the School concerned: Provided that in respect of contracts of apprenticeship entered into after the 1st day of January, 1970, for the words "six years" wherever they occur in this article, there shall be substituted the words "four years". Wages. Amended by: G.N. 217 of
- Substituted by: L.N. 32 of 1967; L.N. 119 of 1969; L.N. 124 of 1976; L.N. 61 of 1977; L.N. 80 of
- Amended by: L.N. 424 of
- The wages payable to apprentices in the calling to which this scheme applies shall be as follows: Hours of work. Amended by: G.N. 271 of 1957; XLIV. 1965.
- Substituted by: L.N. 119 of 1969; L.N. 47 of
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(1)The hours of work of apprentices employed under this scheme shall not exceed eight hours in any one day: Year First Second Third Fourth Wages per week €24.57 €30.79 €37.04 €43.26. Provided that employers may employ apprentices on overtime with the approval of the Director, who may impose such conditions as he may deem fit, at the following rates of remuneration: (
- a)for all time worked in excess of eight hours daily time and a half; (
- b)for all time worked in excess of forty-eight hours in any week, exclusive of any time paid for at overtime rates - time and a half; (
- c)for all time worked on Sundays and any customary holiday - double time.
(2)Apprentices under 16 years of age may not be enployed between 11 p.m. of any one day and 6 a.m. of the next following day. Periods of rest. Substituted by: L.N. 119 of 1969; L.N. 80 of 1979. Vacation leave. Added by: L.N. 119 of 1969. Substituted by: L.N. 77 of 1970; L.N. 86 of 1977. 9. Apprentices shall be granted one whole day of rest in every calendar week. 10. Apprentices shall be entitled, in every calendar year, to (
- a)all customary holidays with full pay, and (
- b)after three months in employment, vacation leave of such number of working days with full pay as is equivalent to the number of working days as that particular apprentice should normally attend to work during a period of four weeks: Provided that - GAS MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTION SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 11 [ S.L.594.09 3 (
- a)all apprentices who have been in employment for less than one year shall be entitled to such part of the said vacation leave as is in proportion to the number of months in employment, and (
- b)vacation leave may not normally be availed of on any day when the apprentice is required to attend school for theoretical instruction. 11.
(1)After completing the first six months of apprenticeship, apprentices shall be entitled to twenty days sick leave on full pay in every calendar year less any sickness benefit to which they may be entitled under the Social Security Act: Sick leave. Added by: L.N. 119 of
- Cap.
- Provided that a medical certificate certifying incapacity for work covering the period of absence is produced to the employer, who may require his medical practitioner to examine the apprentice.
(2)Apprentices shall not be entitled to the payment of any wages for the first three days of every period of sick leave: Provided that the number of unpaid days of sick leave shall not be deducted from the entitlement of paid sick leave.
- Apprentices shall be allowed two days paid leave on the death of any of the following: the wife, husband, mother, father (or the person who at the time was in fact acting as the mother or father), son, daughter, brother and sister of the apprentice. Bereavement leave. Added by: L.N. 119 of
- In this scheme, "customary holidays" means the days (other than Sundays) declared for the time being to be public holidays by or under the National Day and other Public Holidays Act. Customary holidays. Added by: L.N. 119 of
- Amended by: L.N. 124 of
- Substituted by: L.N. 61 of
- Cap.
- An apprentice shall be entitled to one year injury leave on full pay, less the full amount of any injury benefit to which an apprentice may be entitled in terms of the Social Security Act, if he is injured during the actual discharge of his duty and such injury is not due to contributory negligence on his part or to contravention by him of safety rules laid down by the management. Injury leave. Added by: L.N. 80 of
- Cap. 318.