Amendments Nos. 103 and 104 are related and may be discussed together.
SECTION 42.
I move amendment No. 103:
In page 50, line 6, to delete "may" and substitute "shall".
The newly inserted section 26 of the Principal Act provides that the society may make regulations providing for a term of indentures not greater than two years. It also provides that any such regulations may apply to indentures of apprenticeship existing on the day on which the regulations come into effect. Amendment No. 103 removes that discretion from the Law Society and requires the society to apply any new regulations to existing indentures of apprenticeship. As the policy is to reduce the maximum term of indentures of apprenticeship, it seems only fair that any new regulation should also apply to existing apprenticeships. The vast majority at present are serving a three year term of apprenticeship.
Amendments Nos. 103 and 104 are related. The effect of amendment No. 104 is to reduce from 12 to six months the period of time in which the Law Society can make regulations precribing a maximum period of indentures of apprenticeship of two years. These are pro-apprentice amendments.
Amendment agreed to.
I move amendment No. 104:
In page 50, line 9, to delete "12" and substitute "six".
Amendment agreed to.
Section 42, as amended, agreed to.