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Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship Education Act

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The Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship Education Act (Act) repeals and replaces the Apprenticeship and Industry Training Act. The Act governs Alberta’s designated trades and apprenticeship and... More ≫

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The Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship Education Act (Act) repeals and replaces the Apprenticeship and Industry Training Act. The Act governs Alberta’s designated trades and apprenticeship and industry training programs. It provides an enabling legislative framework for the Lieutenant Governor in Council and the Minister of Advanced Education to make regulations on a number of related topics. It provides for the establishment and administration of apprenticeship education and industry training programs including the issuance of academic credentials to individuals who successfully complete the programs. The Act also establishes the Alberta Board of Skilled Trades, describes its powers and functions including the power to make orders and establish committees respecting designated trades. It sets out provisions respecting prohibitions, offences, penalties, compliance and enforcement under the Act.

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Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship Education General Regulation

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The Regulation includes a number of provisions respecting matters that the Minister of Advanced Education must consider before establishing apprenticeship education and industry training programs,... More ≫

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The Regulation includes a number of provisions respecting matters that the Minister of Advanced Education must consider before establishing apprenticeship education and industry training programs, designating trades, prescribing an activity within a designated trade as a restricted activity and prescribing classes of individuals who may perform the restricted activity. It also prescribes offences and penalties for persons who contravene apprentice wage rates and apprentice-to-mentor ratios, remuneration and expenses paid to members of the Alberta Board of Skilled Trades and transitional matters and repeals relating to the implementation of the Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship Education Act and the repeal of the former Apprenticeship and Industry Training Act along with its regulations and board orders.

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