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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 343.02
BESPOKE TAILORING INDUSTRY SCHEME
- SCHEME NO. 2
2nd May, 1952
GOVERNMENT NOTICE 214 of 1952, as amended by Government
Notices 114 and 523 of 1953, and 210 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. 
Scheme - Scheme No. 2.
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.
establishment engaged in the bespoke tailoring of garments for men
and boys.
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. Employers engaging apprentices under this scheme shall
undertake to teach them and to grant them facilities to learn the
following processes:
General - use of needle, thimble and shears;
identification of parts of various garments; stitching
including: back stitch, fore and running stitch, back
and fore stitch, serging stitch, foiling stitch, cross
stitch, padding stitch, tacking stitch, basting stitch,
fine drawing, button hole stitch; marking of sleeve,
lining, pockets, canvases, flap jettings, cuts breast
pockets; shaping shoulders; making of facings and
edges.
Pressing including - use of hand irons, pressing seams,
edge pressing, pressing pockets and flaps; use of
moisture, soap and damping cloths; shrinking and
stretching of parts of garments; pressing of garments.
Sewing Machine including - threading up, regulating
tension, adjustments and care of machine.
Making of Trousers including - stays, fly, button
catch, pockets, inlays, darts, flaps, seams, finishing
bottoms, waistband, pleats tacking buttons.
Making Waist-coats including - pockets, darts, making
up edges, shoulders, lining, inside pockets, back
straps, sleeves for waistcoat.
Making Coats including - marking, putting in darts,
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pockets, cutting and making canvas, making up the
linings, finishing fronts, collars, sleeves.
Measurements of the figure for normal, corpulent,
abnormal, sub-normal and unusual variations.
Design and Cutting of garments, including laying out
of plain, striped and checked materials; matching of
checks and difficult cloths.
Garment Making including - lounge suit, complete
double and single breasted; sports coat; dinner jacket;
mess jacket; and one other garment being either
morning coat, dress coat or overcoat.
Period of 
apprenticeship.
Amended by:
XLIV. 1965.4;
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 of not more than two years, in respect
of:
(i) each year of attendance by the prospective
apprentice, following the attainment by him of
the twelfth year of his age, in a full-time
tailoring course in the Government Tailoring
School or in any other school or institute of
comparable standard approved by the Minister
responsible for labour, such attendance being
certified as satisfactory by the Director of the
school or institution concerned; and
(ii) each year of learnership in the calling of tailor
undergone by the prospective apprentice with
the permission of the Director:
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 "five years".
Wages.
Substituted by:
G.N. 210 of 1957;
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 the apprentices in the calling to
which this scheme applies shall be as follows:
Hours of work.
Added by:
L.N. 119 of 1969.
Substituted by:
L.N. 47 of 1970.
8. (1) 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 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;
Year Wages per week
First Lm 10.55,0
Second Lm 12.55,0
Third Lm 14.56,0
Fourth Lm 16.57,0
Fifth Lm 18.57,0.
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( b ) for all time worked in excess of forty-five hours in any
week, exclusive of any time paid at overtime rates -
time and a half;
( c ) for all time worked on Sundays and on customary
holidays - 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.
Applicability of 
Employment and 
Industrial 
Relations Act.
Cap. 452.
9. The rates of wages for learners specified in article 7 shall
hold good subject to such provision as may hereafter be made under
the Employment and Industrial Relations Act.
Classes of 
instruction.
Amended by:
G.N. 114 of 1953;
G.N. 210 of 1957.
10. The employer shall afford to any apprentice employed by
him under this scheme facilities for attending during the period of
apprenticeship such classes of instruction as the Minister may by
order determine. Such classes shall not take up more than an
average of eight hours per week, and if such classes are held during
ordinary working hours the hours so spent shall be reckoned as
hours of employment for the purposes of the payment of wages.
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
thereof of default.
Periods of rest.
Substituted by:
L.N. 119 of 1969;
L.N. 80 of 1979.
11. 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.
12. 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 -
( 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.
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
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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 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.
Amended by:
L.N. 124 of 1976.
Substituted by:
L.N. 61 of 1977.
Cap. 252.
15. 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.
16. 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.
