Apprentices Act, 1961

Practical and basic training of apprentices.

9. [(1) Every employer shall make suitable arrangements in his workplace for imparting a course of practical training to every apprentice engaged by him.]

(2) [The Central Apprenticeship Adviser or any other person not below the rank of an Assistant Apprenticeship Adviser authorised by the Central Apprenticeship Adviser in writing in this behalf] shall be given all reasonable facilities for access to each such apprentice with a view to test his work and to ensure that the practical training is being imparted in accordance with the approved programme :

Provided that [the State Apprenticeship Adviser or any other person not below the rank of an Assistant Apprenticeship Adviser authorised by the State Apprenticeship Adviser in writing in this behalf] shall also be given such facilities in respect of apprentices undergoing training in establishments in relation to which the appropriate Government is the State Government.

[(3) Such of the trade apprentices who have not undergone institutional training in a school or other institution recognised by the National Council or any other institution affiliated to or recognised by a Board or State Council of Technical Education or any other authority which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf, shall, before admission in the workplace for practical training, undergo a course of basic training and the course of basic training shall be given to the trade apprentices in any institute having adequate facilities.]

(4) Where an employer employs in his establishment five hundred or more workers, the basic training shall be imparted to [the trade apprentices] either in separate parts of the workshop building or in a separate building which shall be set .... To read the full section download the app from Google Play store