Employment and Training Act 1973

17 In the Schedule to the Act—

(a) at the end of paragraph 4 there shall be inserted the words " and may make such arrangements for the payment of pensions, superannuation allowances and gratuities to or in respect of its chairman as the Minister may specify with the like approval ";

(b) after paragraph 4 there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“4A Where a person ceases to be the chairman of an industrial training board otherwise than on the expiry of his term of office and it appears to the Minister that there are special circumstances which make it right for him to receive compensation, the board may make him a payment of such amount as the Minister may determine with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service.”;

(c) in paragraph 6(1) after the word " specify " there shall be inserted the words " and the Commission ";

(d) after sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 6 there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraph—

(1A) The Commission may appoint one or more persons to attend the meetings of a committee of an industrial training board, and a person so appointed shall be entitled to take part in the proceedings of the committee and receive copies of all documents distributed to its members but shall have no vote.;

(e) at the end of paragraph 10 there shall be inserted the words " with the approval of the Minister given with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service "; and

(f) in paragraph 11 for the words "as the board may determine " there shall be substituted the words " (including allowances for loss of remunerative time) as the Minister may determine with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service ".