Employment and Training Act 1973

9 After section 6 of the Act there shall be inserted the following section—

“6A Provisions supplementary to s.6.

(1) The Commission may, with the approval of the Minister, direct an industrial training board to exercise the power to require the furnishing of information which is conferred on the board by subsection (2) of the preceding section (hereafter in this section referred to as " the relevant power ") so as to require employers in the industry to furnish to the board, in such form and on such occasions as are specified in the direction, such information as the Commission considers that the Commission needs for the purposes of its functions and as is so specified ; and it shall be the duty of the board to comply with the direction.

(2) An industrial training board shall not exercise the relevant power except—

(a) in pursuance of a direction given by virtue of the preceding subsection ; or

(b) with the approval of the Minister and in accordance with the conditions, if any, of the approval;

and any application by a board for approval in pursuance of paragraph (b) of this subsection must be made to the Commission and contain such information as the Commission may require with respect to the proposed exercise of the relevant power.

(3) Where the Commission receives such an application from a board the Commission—

(a) may request the board to withdraw or alter the application; and

(b) shall, if it does not so request or the board declines to comply with the request or complies with a request to alter the application, transmit the application to the Minister ;

and it shall be the duty of the Commission on transmitting the application to the Minister to inform him whether in its opinion he should reject the application or approve it with specified conditions or without conditions.

(4) An approval of an application given by the Minister in pursuance of subsection (2)(b) of this section may be given subject to conditions that the board in question may exercise the relevant power only for the purpose of requiring the furnishing of information in such forms and on such occasions as are specified in the instrument of approval.”