GAS MANUFACTURE AND 
DISTRIBUTION SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 11 ġ S.L.343.09 1
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 343.09
GAS MANUFACTURE AND DISTRIBUTION 
SCHEME - SCHEME NO. 11
24th November, 1953
GOVERNMENT NOTICE 634 of 1953, as amended by Government
Notice 217 of 1957, Act XLIV of 1965, and Legal Notices 32 of 1967, 119
of 1969, 47 and 77 of 1970, 124 of 1976, 61 and 86 of 1977, 51 of 1978 and
80 of 1979.
Citation. 
Distribution Scheme - Scheme No. 11.
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.
Enemalta (hereinafter referred to as "the employer") which
occupation is hereby designated as a calling within the meaning
and for the purposes of the said Act.
Employment as 
apprentice.
Amended by:
XLIV. 1965.4.
Substituted by:
L.N. 61 of 1977;
L.N. 51 of 1978.
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 either completed the fourth year of a Secondary
School or the full Trade School Course.
Processes to be 
learnt.
5. The employer engaging apprentices under this scheme
shall undertake to teach them and to grant them facilities to learn
the follovaing processes:
(1) General - Dismantling, assembly and fitting of
stationary and working parts of gas meters and
appliances including marking out, hack sawing,
drilling by hand, chisel shearing, filing to instrument
measure, countersinking and counterboring; use of
appropriate tools and measuring instruments and test
gauges; detection of faults in meters and appliances.
(2) Main Drain pipe laying - Laying of gas mains; making
of branch connections and fittings for syphons and
valves; closing of joints by caulking; sealing of
flanges; cutting of threads.
(3) Internal fitting - Laying of gas pipes from main supply
and connecting same to meters, cookers, geysers,
heaters and other domestic appliances, including
cutting of piping, jointing, caulking, sealing of
flanges, and cutting of threads.
(4) Safety precautions.
(5) During the last year of apprenticeship the employer
may cause the apprentice to specialise in either meter
repairs, main pipe laying or internal fitting.
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Period of 
apprenticeship.
Amended by:
L.N. 119 of 1969.
6. The period of apprenticeship shall be of six years:
Provided that six months shall be deducted from the said
period of six years, to a total deduction of not more than two years,
in respect of each complete year of attendance by the prospective
apprentice, following the attainment by him of the twelfth year of
his age, at any metal work of mechanical engineering course in a
Government technical day-school, such attendance being certified
as satisfactory by the Director of the School concerned:
Provided that in respect of contracts of apprenticeship
entered into after the 1st day of January, 1970, for the words "six
years" wherever they occur in this article, there shall be substituted
the words "four years".
Wages.
Amended by:
G.N. 217 of 1957.
Substituted by:
L.N. 32 of 1967;
L.N. 119 of 1969;
L.N. 124 of 1976;
L.N. 61 of 1977;
L.N. 80 of 1979.
7. The wages payable to apprentices in the calling to which
this scheme applies shall be as follows:
Hours of work.
Amended by:
G.N. 271 of 1957;
XLIV. 1965.4.
Substituted by:
L.N. 119 of 1969;
L.N. 47 of 1970.
8. (1) The hours of work of apprentices employed under this
scheme shall not exceed eight hours in any one day:
Provided that employers may employ apprentices on
overtime 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 eight hours daily -
time and a half;
( b ) for all time worked in excess of forty-eight hours in
any week, exclusive of any time paid for at overtime
rates - time and a half;
( c ) for all time worked on Sundays and any customary
holiday - double time.
(2) Apprentices under 16 years of age may not be enployed
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;
L.N. 80 of 1979.
9. Apprentices shall be granted one whole day of rest in every
calendar week.
Vacation leave.
Added by:
L.N. 119 of 1969.
Substituted by:
L.N. 77 of 1970;
L.N. 86 of 1977.
10. Apprentices shall be entitled, in every calendar year, to -
( a ) all customary holidays with full pay, and
( b ) after three months in employment, vacation leave of
such number of working days with full pay as is
equivalent to the number of working days as that
particular apprentice should normally attend to work
during a period of four weeks:
Provided that -
Year Wages per week
First Lm 10.55,0
Second Lm 13.22,0
Third Lm 15.90,0
Fourth Lm 18.57,0.
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( a ) all apprentices who have been in employment for less
than one year shall be entitled to such part of the said
vacation leave as is in proportion to the number of
months in employment, and
( b ) vacation leave may not normally be availed of on any
day when the apprentice is required to attend school
for theoretical instruction.
Sick leave.
Added by:
L.N. 119 of 1969.
Cap. 318.
11. (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.
12. 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.
Amended by:
L.N. 124 of 1976.
Substituted by:
L.N. 61 of 1977.
Cap. 252.
13. In this scheme, "customary holidays" means the days
(other than Sundays) declared for the time being to be public
holidays by or under the National Day and other Public Holidays
Act.
Injury leave.
Added by:
L.N. 80 of 1979.
Cap. 318.
14. An apprentice shall be entitled to one year injury leave on
full pay, less the full amount of any injury benefit to which an
apprentice may be entitled in terms of the Social Security Act, if he
is injured during the actual discharge of his duty and such injury is
not due to contributory negligence on his part or to contravention
by him of safety rules laid down by the management.
