Industrial Training (Apprenticeship Training) Amendment Regulations 2006 (WA)

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Training) Amendment Regulations 2006.

ED301*

Industrial Training Act 1975

Industrial Training (Apprenticeship Training)

Amendment Regulations 2006

Made by the Governor in Executive Council.

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Industrial Training (Apprenticeship

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2.            Commencement

These regulations come into operation on 1 May 2006.

3.           The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Industrial
Training (Apprenticeship Training) Regulations 1981*.

[* Reprinted as at 2 August 2002.

For amendments to 22 March 2006 see Gazette 12 August and 18 November 2005.]

4.            Schedule 1 amended

Schedule 1 is amended as follows:
(a) by deleting the items for -

(i) Bricklaying;

(ii)     Carpentry and Joinery;

(iii) Plastering; (iv) Tilelaying;

(v)     Wall and Ceiling Fixing;

(b) after the item for "Baking (Combined Breadmaking and Pastrycooking)" by inserting the following items in the appropriate alphabetical positions -

Bricklaying
Carpentry and Joinery
Plastering
Tilelaying

Wall and Ceiling Fixing

(c) after the item for "Wall and Ceiling Fixing" (as inserted

by paragraph (b)) by inserting the following items -

"

Bricklaying (Housing) 2 Years

Carpentry (Housing)
Joinery (Housing)
Plastering (Housing)
Wall and Ceiling Fixing (Housing)
Wall and Floor Tiling (Housing)

5. Schedule 2 amended
Schedule 2 is amended by deleting the items for -

(a) Carpentry and Joinery;

(b) Plastering.

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6.            Schedule 3 amended

Schedule 3 is amended in Column 1 by deleting "Bricklaying" and "Carpentry and Joinery".

7.            Schedule 3A amended

Schedule 3A is amended by inserting the following items in the appropriate alphabetical positions -

M.

Bricklaying	320 hours	320 hours	120 hours
Carpentry and	320 hours	320 hours	120 hours
Joinery
Plastering	320 hours	320 hours	120 hours
Bricklaying	320 hours	270 hours
(Housing)
Carpentry	320 hours	256 hours
(Housing)
Joinery (Housing)	320 hours	236 hours
Plastering	320 hours	272 hours
(Housing)
Wall and Ceiling	320 hours	240 hours
Fixing(Housing)
Wall and Floor	320 hours	322 hours
Tiling (Housing)
Tilelaying	320 hours	320 hours	120 hours
Wall and Ceiling	320 hours	320 hours	120 hours
Fixing

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8. Schedule 4 amended
Schedule 4 is amended by deleting the items for -

(a) Bricklaying;

(b)	Carpentry and Joinery;
(c)	Plastering; and
(d)	Wall and Ceiling Fixing.

9.           Transitional

(1) Subject to this regulation the Industrial Training

(Apprenticeship Training) Regulations 1981 as in force
immediately before 1 May 2006 continue to apply to and in

relation to -

(a)

an apprentice who commenced service in a building 1 May 2006 (an "existing apprentice"); or

(b) a person who -

(i) commenced employment as a probationer in a

building trade before 1 May 2006;

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(ii)     completes that probationary employment after 1 May 2006; and

(iii)

on completing that probationary employment agreement,

(an "existing probationer").

(2) The parties to the apprenticeship agreement of an existing

probationer may, with the approval of the Director, agree in the

apprenticeship agreement -

(a) that the term of the apprenticeship is to be 3 years; or

(b) that-

(i)     the apprentice is to be employed in a housing building trade (instead of the building trade in which he or she was employed as a probationer);

and

(ii)     the term of the apprenticeship is to be 2 years.

(3) If the parties to an apprenticeship agreement agree in the

manner described in subregulation (2)(a) or (b), subsection (1) ceases to apply to and in relation to the apprentice when he or she commences service under the apprenticeship agreement.

(4) The parties to the apprenticeship agreement of an existing apprentice may, with the approval of the Director, vary the apprenticeship agreement to -

(a)	change the term of the apprenticeship to 3 years (plus any extension made by the Director under subregulation (6)); or
(b)	change -

(i)     the trade in which the apprentice is employed to a housing building trade; and

(ii)     the term of the apprenticeship to 2 years (plus

any extension made by the Director under

subregulation (6)).

(5) An application for approval under subregulation (4) must be
made -

(a)	in a form and manner approved by the Director; and
(b)	within 3 months of the date on which these regulations come into operation.

(6) If, when an application is made for approval under

subregulation (4) -

(a) the apprentice has not -

(i)     attended all the classes;

(ii)     obtained all the instruction; and

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(iii) undertaken all the courses and skills training

programmes;

that the apprentice is required by section 33(1) of the in which he or she is to be employed under the varied agreement; and

(b) the Director is satisfied that the apprentice will not reasonably be able to complete those requirements during the term of the apprenticeship (as varied),

the Director may, before approving the variation, extend the
term of the apprenticeship (as specified in the variation) by such
period as the Director considers is reasonably necessary for the

apprentice to complete those requirements.

(7)	A variation of an apprenticeship agreement under subregulation (4) takes effect on the date on which it is approved by the Director.
(8)	If an apprenticeship agreement is varied under subregulation (4), subsection (1) ceases to apply to and in relation to the apprentice on the date the variation takes effect.
(9)	In this regulation — "building trade" means —

(a) bricklaying;

(b) carpentry and joinery;

(c) plastering;

(d)	tilelaying; or
(e)	wall and ceiling fixing;

"housing building trade" means —

(a)	bricklaying (housing);
(b)	carpentry (housing);

(c)	joinery (housing);
(d)	plastering (housing);
(e)	wall and ceiling fixing (housing); or
(f)	wall and floor tiling (housing).

By Command of the Governor,

M. C. WAUCHOPE, Clerk of the Executive Council.