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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 343.03
WAITERS IN HOTELS SCHEME
- SCHEME NO. 4
7th November, 1952
GOVERNMENT NOTICE 524 of 1952, as amended by Government
Notices 114 of 1953 and 212 of 1957, Act XLIV of 1965, and Legal Notices
32 of 1967, 119 of 1969, and 47 and 77 of 1970.
Citation. 
Scheme No. 4.
Interpretation.
Cap. 343.
2. In this scheme, unless the context otherwise requires, the
words and expressions used shall have the same meanings as those
assigned to them by the Employment and Training Services Act.
Applicability.
hotels, which occupation is hereby designated as a calling within
the meaning and for the purposes of the said Act.
Employment as an 
apprentice.
Amended by:
XLIV. 1965.4.
4. No person may be employed as an apprentice under this
scheme unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Director that
such person has a standard of education at least equivalent to that
of a person who has passed the Fifth Standard of the Primary
Schools.
Learning routine of 
service.
5. The employers engaging apprentices under this scheme
shall undertake to teach them and to grant them facilities to learn
all matters of discipline and all routine of service of a waiter in a
first class hotel, including:
(i) method of laying a table and ensuring that
plates, glass and silver are clean and properly
arranged;
(ii) method of securing orders, obtaining delivery
from the kitchen and proper presentation to
clients;
(iii) knowledge of different dishes;
(iv) method of presentation of wines;
(v) taking of orders in writing and making up and
checking of bills.
Period of training.
two stages, namely:
(i) the first two years shall be devoted to the duties
commonly known in the hotel trade as those of a
" debarrasseur "; and
(ii) the second two years shall be devoted to the duties
commonly known in the hotel trade as those of
" commis ".
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Classes of 
instruction.
Amended by:
G.N. 114 of 1953;
G.N. 212 of 1957.
7. The employers shall afford to every apprentice employed
by them under this scheme facilities for attending during the period
of apprenticeship such classes of instruction as the Minister may by
order determine, unless the employers make such arrangements for
the further education of the apprentices as may appear to the
Minister to be sufficient for allowing this requirement to be
dispensed with.
The apprentice shall be bound to attend all classes
determined as aforesaid. Should he fail so to attend on any day
without just cause, the employer shall be entitled to make a
deduction from the wages of the apprentice equivalent to
one-twelfth of the weekly rate in respect of each half day or part
there of of default.
Exemption from 
certain provisions.
8. Apprentices employed under this scheme shall be
exempted from the provisions of the Employment of Children
(Regulation) Ordinance *  but may not be employed for more than
ten hours in any one day or, if they are under sixteen years of age,
between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Wages.
Substituted by:
L.N. 32 of 1967;
L.N. 119 of 1969.
9. The wages to be paid to the apprentices in the calling to
which this scheme applies shall be as follows:
Hours of work.
Substituted by:
G.N. 212 of 1957;
L.N. 32 of 1967;
L.N. 119 of 1969;
L.N. 47 of 1970.
10. The hours of work of apprentices employed under this
scheme shall not exceed nine hours in any one day:
Provided that employers may employ apprentices on
overtime work with the approval of the Director, who may impose
such conditions as he may deem fit, at the following rates of
remuneration:
( a ) for all time worked in excess of nine hours daily: time
and a half;
( b ) for all time worked in excess of forty-five hours in any
week, exclusive of any time paid for at overtime rates:
time and a half;
( c ) for all time worked on the weekly day of rest: double
time.
(2) Apprentices under 16 years of age may not be employed
between 11 p.m. of any one day and 6 a.m. of the next following
day.
Periods of rest.
Substituted by:
L.N. 119 of 1969.
11. Apprentices shall be granted one whole day or two twelve
hour periods of rest in every calendar week such periods to end at
noon or to begin at 2p.m. on any day of the week.
*Repealed by the Education Act, Cap. 327.
Year Wages per week
First Lm 2.50,0
Second Lm 3.80,0
Third Lm 5.10,0
Fourth Lm 6.40.0.
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Vacation leave.
Added by:
L.N. 119 of 1969.
Substituted by:
L.N. 77 of 1970.
12. After completing the first six months of apprenticeship,
apprentices shall be allowed in every calendar year -
( a ) fifteen days holidays with pay on customary holidays
or otherwise at the discretion of the employer; and
( b ) fifteen days vacation leave with pay to be taken on
days to be agreed on with the employer:
Provided that -
( a ) when a customary holiday falls on a Sunday or any
other day of rest for the establishment concerned, the
entitlement for leave in respect of that day shall be lost
and
( b ) leave may not be availed of on a day when the
apprentice is to attend school for theoretical
instruction.
Sick leave.
Added by:
L.N. 119 of 1969.
Cap. 318.
13. (1) After completing the first six months of
apprenticeship, apprentices shall be entitled to twenty days sick
leave on full pay in every calendar year less any sickness benefit to
which they may be entitled under the Social Security Act:
Provided that a medical certificate certifying incapacity for
work covering the period of absence is produced to the employer,
who may require his medical practitioner to examine the
apprentice.
(2) Apprentices shall not be entitled to the payment of any
wages for the first three days of every period of sick leave:
Provided that the number of unpaid days of sick leave shall
not be deducted from the entitlement of paid sick leave.
Bereavement 
leave.
Added by:
L.N. 119 of 1969.
14. Apprentices shall be allowed two days paid leave on the
death of any of the following: the wife, husband, mother, father (or
the person who at the time was in fact acting as the mother or
father), son, daughter, brother and sister of the apprentice.
Customary 
holidays.
Added by:
L.N. 119 of 1969.
15. In this scheme unless the context otherwise requires,
"customary holiday" means any one of the following days:
Feast of the Circumcision 1st January
Feast of the Epiphany 6th January
Feast of St Paul’s Shipwreck 10th February
Feast of St Joseph 19th March
Good Friday -
Ascension Day -
Feast of St Joseph the Worker 1st May
Feast of Corpus Christi -
Feast of St Peter and St Paul 29th June
Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin 15th August
Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin 8th September
National Day 21st September
All Saints Day 1st November
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Feast of the Immaculate Conception 8th December
Christmas Day 25th December
