AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

APPRENTICESHIP REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 16 of 1977

Section 48 of the Apprenticeship Ordinance 1936 provides that the Minister may make regulations which are required for carrying out or giving effect to the Ordinance.

Regulation 3 of the Apprenticeship Regulations is now amended and provides that the rate at which an allowance is payable under Section 22 of the Ordinance be thirty dollars ($30) per week in lieu of fifteen dollars ($15) per week.  This takes account of ruling rates for interstate (usually N.S.W.) accommodation.

The allowance subsidises costs of accommodation when apprentices attend specialist trade courses not available in the ACT.

J.L. CARRICK