14.—(1) For the purpose of making better provision for the training of persons over compulsory school age for employment in any activities of industry the Department may make an order ( “an industrial training order”) specifying those activities and establishing a board to exercise in relation to them the functions conferred by this Order on industrial training boards.
(2) Before making an industrial training order the Department shall consult—
(a)any organisations appearing to the Department to be representative of substantial numbers of employers engaging in the activities concerned; and
(b)any organisations appearing to the Department to be representative of substantial numbers of employees engaging in the activities concerned; and
(c)if the activities concerned are carried on to a substantial extent by a body established for the purpose of carrying on under public ownership any industry or part of an industry or undertaking, that body;
and the Department may carry out such other consultations as it thinks fit.
(3) The provisions of Schedule 2 shall have effect with respect to industrial training boards.
(4) If an employer in the industry of an industrial training board requests the Department in writing to secure that the activities carried on at a particular establishment of his shall, instead of being included for the purposes of this Order in that industry, be included for those purposes in the industry of another industrial training board, the Department, after consulting both the boards in question about the request, may make an order giving effect to the request.
(5) Paragraph (4) is without prejudice to the power of the Department under paragraph (1) to amend an industrial training order after the consultations required by paragraph (2).
(6) An industrial training order or an order under paragraph (4) may provide for any incidental or supplementary matter for which it appears to the Department to be necessary or expedient to provide.
(7) Every industrial training order shall be subject to negative resolution.