The Governor-General may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, specify localities for the purposes of this section, and reference to any such notice in any agreement for the appointment of a local Committee or in any other document shall be a sufficient definition in that document of the locality to which the notice relates.”

At any meeting of a Committee five members shall form a quorum if the Committee consists of eight persons, and six shall form a quorum if the Committee consists of ten persons.”

Every contract of apprenticeship, or alteration thereof, to which this Act applies shall be in writing, signed by the employer and the apprentice and, if the apprentice is under the age of twenty-one years, by the parent or guardian (if any) of the apprentice, or, if not made in writing, shall be forthwith reduced to writing signed as aforesaid.

The parties to any contract of apprenticeship to which this Act applies shall, within twenty-eight days after the commencement of the employment of the apprentice or the making of an alteration, as the case may be, submit the contract or alteration to the District Commissioner for the locality concerned for registration. If the contract or altera tion is not submitted for registration within the prescribed time the parties thereto shall be severally liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.

No contract of apprenticeship, or alteration thereof, to which this Act applies shall have any validity until it has been consented to as provided by section 19 of this Act and has been duly registered:

“Provided that any registered contract shall operate from the date of the commencement of the employment of the apprentice or, as, the case may be, from the date of validation specified by the Court under subsection (3) of section 19 of this Act.”

The termination of a contract of apprenticeship before the expiry of the period of probation prescribed by the contract, or the termination thereof by discharge of the apprentice for good cause, shall be notified to the District Commissioner by the employer within twenty-eight days after any such termination.”

Any party to any contract of apprenticeship affected by an apprenticeship order pursuant to any of the foregoing provisions of this section may at any time apply to the Court for a modification of the apprenticeship order so far as it affects the contract of apprenticeship, and the Court may make such modification of the order in relation to that contract as it thinks fit, or may exclude that contract from the operation of the order.”

If any person who has attained the age of eighteen years desires to enter into a special contract of apprenticeship as an apprentice, the proposed contract shall be considered by the appropriate local Committee, or, if there is no such Committee, by the District Commissioner, and shall be forwarded, together with any recommendations of the Committee or District Commissioner thereon, to the Commissioner for trans mission to the Court for its consent.

The Court, after considering any recommendations of the Committee or the District Commissioner, and after hearing representations of any person or any organisation of employers or of workers interested in the matter which it may think fit to hear, may, in its discretion, grant or refuse its consent to the contract of apprenticeship, and the decision of the Court shall be final and conclusive.”

Any party to the contract of apprenticeship may, within fourteen days after he has been notified by the Committee or the District Commissioner of the decision to grant or refuse leave to discharge the apprentice, appeal in the prescribed manner to a Magistrate exercising civil jurisdiction in the Magistrate’s Court nearest to the place where the apprentice is employed.”

Every employer who commits a breach of this Act for which no specific penalty is elsewhere provided shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds in respect of each breach, and every other person who commits a breach of this Act for which no specific penalty is elsewhere provided shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds in respect of each breach:

“Provided that if the breach is a continuing one, every employer shall be liable to a further penalty not exceeding ten pounds, and every other person to a further penalty not exceeding one pound, for every day on which the breach has continued after the first day.”