AP829982 - Metal Industry (Victorian Public Hospitals) Award 2002

19. ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS FOR SPECIFIED TRADES

19.1 The following additional provisions shall apply in relation to apprenticeships in the trades specified hereunder:

• Electrical fitter and/or armature winder (except the winding of armatures by specialised processes).
• Electrical mechanic.
• Fitter and/or turner.
• Locksmith - making and/or repairing locks including those of safes and strongroom doors but not including the making of parts by specialised processes and the assembling thereof.
• Machinist - 1st and 2nd class.
• Motor mechanic.
• Scientific instrument maker.
• Welder - special class.
• Tradesman, radio.
• Telegraph mechanic and/or serviceman.
• Boilermaker and/or structural steel tradesman, and/or welder - 1st class.
• Sheet metal worker - 1st class.

19.2 If the apprentice when indentured is under the age of 21 years and the State Training Board is satisfied that the apprentice:

19.2.1 is of the educational standard indicated in the next succeeding clause or has had experience relevant to the trade concerned which together with their educational qualifications fits them to undertake the training mentioned in 19.2.4 hereof; and

19.2.2 has the necessary vocational aptitude for training in the trade concerned, the period of apprenticeship shall be four years.

19.2.3 An apprentice who comes within the provisions of the preceding clause shall:

19.2.3(a) be entitled to credit towards the four year term of apprenticeship in accordance with the following table:

Standard	Credit
Passed Year 10 school year examination	Six months
including passes in a mathematics and a
science subject.
Completed Year 11 school year, including	Six months
study at that level of a mathematics and
a science subject.
Taken Year 11 school year examination with	Twelve months
passes in a mathematics and a science subject
at that level

19.2.3(b) if they are an apprentice who has had experience relevant to the trade, be granted such credit towards the four year term of apprenticeship as the apprenticeship authority thinks fit, having regard to their trade experience and education standard.

19.2.4 An apprentice to whom the last two preceding clauses apply shall undertake as early as practicable in the first year of their apprenticeship a period of twenty weeks of full day continuous training in a technical school or college designed for apprentices covered by those clauses and a subsequent period of 280 hours of training in a similar technical school or college during the remainder of their apprenticeship.

19.2.5 Where an apprentice who received a credit towards the term of four years pursuant to 19.2.3 fails, in the opinion of the apprenticeship authority, to make satisfactory progress, the apprenticeship authority may require the apprentice to service such additional period, as it determines, not exceeding the amount of the credit.

19.2.6 For the purpose of determining wages payable to them under the scale or rates fixed from time to time in 18.6 of this award for a four year term, the credit to which an apprentice is entitled or granted pursuant to 19.2.3 hereof shall be counted as part of the apprenticeship term completed.

19.2.7 Notwithstanding the provisions of 18.13 of this award the total period of training required to be undertaken by 19.2.4 hereof which is to be performed during ordinary working hours shall be not less than the hours of training required to be performed during ordinary working hours by the provisions from time to time in force of any statute, award or regulation relating to the attendance of apprentices at technical school provided, however, that the period of twenty weeks training referred to in 19.2.4 hereof shall be undertaken during ordinary working hours.