Employment and Training Act 1973

3 (1) In section 2(1) of the Act—

(a) at the beginning there shall be inserted the words " For the purpose of encouraging adequate training of persons employed or intending to be employed in the industry " ;

(b) in paragraphs (a) and (c) for the word " shall " there shall be substituted the word " may " and in paragraph (a) for the words from " of persons" to " required " there shall be substituted the words " of those persons as the board considers adequate " and for the words " such persons " there shall be substituted the words " those persons ";

(c) after paragraph (g) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(h) may provide advice about training connected with the industry.

(2) For subsection (3) of section 2 of the Act there shall be substituted the following subsection—

(3) An industrial training board may—

(a) at the request of another industrial training board provide advice for the other board and courses and other facilities for the training of persons employed or intending to be employed in the industry for which that other board is established ;

(b) at the request of the Commission provide such other advice, and such other courses and facilities for training, as are mentioned in the request;

(c) at the request of an employer in the industry provide for him advice about training connected with activities carried on in Northern Ireland or outside the United Kingdom which, if they were carried on in Great Britain, would be included in the industry ;

(d) enter into agreements with persons for the making by them of payments to the board in respect of the exercise by the board of any of its functions ;

(e) take part in any arrangements made in pursuance of section 2(1) or (2), 3(4) or 8 of the Employment and Training Act 1973 (which relate to arrangements for persons to select, train for and obtain suitable employments and to obtain suitable employees) ;

but any expense incurred by the board in pursuance of paragraph (c) of this subsection shall not be defrayed out of sums received by the board by way of levy.

(3) At the end of paragraph (b) of section 2(4) of the Act there shall be inserted the words

“, to persons who make studies for the purpose of providing such courses or facilities and to persons who maintain arrangements to provide such courses or facilities which are not for the time being in use " and at the end of the said section 2(4) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(d) make payments to persons in connection with arrangements under which they or employees of theirs make use of courses or other facilities provided or approved by the board.”