4th Session, 42nd Legislature

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Bill 221

THE APPRENTICESHIP AND CERTIFICATION AMENDMENT ACT (APPRENTICESHIP SUPERVISION)

(Assented to                                         )

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

C.C.S.M. c. A110 amended

1

The Apprenticeship and Certification Act is amended by this Act.

2

The following is added after section 18:

Ratio of 1:1 between apprentices and journeypersons

18.1(1)

For the purpose of providing supervision of apprentices, an employer must not permit the ratio of apprentices to journeypersons employed by the employer in a designated trade to exceed 1 to 1.

Ratios previously set by regulation may continue

18.1(2)

Despite subsection (1), if a higher ratio of apprentices to journeypersons is prescribed in a designated trade regulation before the coming into force of this section, that ratio may continue but must not be increased.

3

Clause 46(1)(b)(iii) is amended by adding "subject to section 18.1," before "the supervision".

Coming into force

4

This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.