Industrial Training Act 1975 (WA)

Western Australia

This Act was repealed by the Training Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2008 s. 50 (No. 44 of 2008) as at 10 Jun 2009 (see s. 2(2)).

Western Australia

Industrial Training Act 1975

An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to apprentices, to make provision for the industrial and commercial training of other persons, to repeal the Apprentices Act 1918 and certain provisions of the Industrial Arbitration Act 1912, and for incidental and other purposes.

[Long title amended by No. 103 of 1985 s.2.]

This Act may be cited as the Industrial Training Act 1975 1.

This Act shall come into operation on a date to be fixed by proclamation 1.

[3. Repealed by No. 103 of 1985 s.3.]

• (1)

  In this Act unless the contrary intention appears — 

apprentice means any person pursuant to this Act bound apprentice to an employer or an industrial training advisory board in an apprenticeship trade by an agreement or by assignment of an agreement;

apprenticeship agreement means an agreement under which a person is bound as an apprentice;

apprenticeship trade means a trade prescribed as an apprenticeship trade under this Act;

Commission means The Western Australian Industrial Commission established under the Industrial Arbitration Act 1912 2;

Department means the department of the Public Service of the State known as the Department of Labour and Industry 3 or if there is no department of that name the department that is responsible for assisting the Minister in the administration of this Act;

Director means the person for the time being holding or acting in the office of Director of Industrial Training under this Act;

Division means the Division of Industrial Training established under this Act;

industrial trainee means a person, other than an apprentice, who undertakes a course of training in an industrial training trade;

industrial training agreement means an agreement under which a person undertakes a course of training in an industrial training trade;

industrial training trade means a trade that is prescribed as an industrial training trade under this Act;

probationer means a person who is employed on probation pursuant to section 29;

Registrar means the Registrar of Industrial Training appointed under this Act;

section means a section of this Act;

trade includes occupation and any branch or branches of a trade or occupation;

traineeship scheme means a traineeship scheme established by the Minister under section 37D(1).

• [(2)

  repealed]

[Section 4 amended by No. 86 of 1980 s.4; No. 103 of 1985 s.4; No. 40 of 1990 s.45; No. 42 of 1996 s.71(2).]

• (1)

  The Apprentices Act 1918 and the following provisions of the Industrial Arbitration Act 1912 2, that is to say — 

  • (a)

    subparagraphs (iii), (v), (vi), (viii), (ix) and (x) of paragraph (f) of the definition “industrial matter” in section…