A.3 Transfer to Supplement Training

A.3.1 Where the Council considers it necessary to enable
a dental technician cadet to acquire proper practical training
it may, on the application of any party to the contract,
approve the transfer of the cadet for a limited period to
another employer in order to supplement the training of
the dental technician cadet.

A.4 Minimum Age

A.4.1 The minimum age at which a person may enter
a dental technician cadetship shall be 16 years.

A.5 Prerequisite Education

A.5.1 It shall be necessary for a person desiring to become
a dental technician cadet to produce satisfactory evidence
that he has obtained a pass in at least two subjects of
School Certificate, one of which shall be mathematics,
general science, physics, or chemistry, or to produce evidence
to the Dental Technician Training Council of his eligibility
for enrolment as a student on alternative grounds of equal
educational standard.

A.6 Contracts to be Registered

A.6.1 All contracts and any alterations or variations thereto
entered into between an employer and a dental technician
cadet shall be approved by the Council.

A.6.2 Copies of all contracts and any alterations or variations
thereto approved by the Council shall be lodged with
the Secretary of the Council.

A.6.3 Before registration the Council shall satisfy itself
that the document submitted is in accordance with the Act,
this scheme, and any determination of conditions of employment
in the industry.

A.6.4 Contracts shall be in the form annexed hereto as
Appendix I.

A.7 Term of Cadetship

A.7.1 The term of cadetship shall be for 4 years from
the date of commencing employment as a dental technician
cadet unless otherwise determined by the Council in the
special circumstances of a particular case.

A.8 Period of Probation

A.8.1 The period of probation shall be 3 months from
the date of commencing employment as a dental technician
cadet.

A.8.2 The employer shall be responsible for notifying the
Council if the contract of cadetship is terminated by either
party during the probationary period.

A.9 Termination of Contract

A.9.1 Other than by mutual consent of the parties, upon
completion of the probationary period, a contract of dental
technician cadetship shall be terminated during its term
only with the consent of the Council and providing the
Council is satisfied that such termination is in the best
interests of both parties to the contract.

A.9.2 Where the employer of any dental technician cadet
for any reason ceases to be engaged in the industry and
the dental technician cadet is thereby deprived of the employment
he was otherwise entitled to under his contract of
dental technician cadetship, the Council may order payment
to the cadet of an amount up to but not exceeding 3 months'
wages in respect of any period intervening between the
time when the dental technician cadet was deprived of his
employment and the time when he obtains other employment
as a dental technician cadet.

A.9.3 A contract of dental technician cadetship may be
terminated by mutual consent at any time during its currency.
The employer is to notify the Council in such cases.

A.10 Suspension and Discharge

A.10.1 Where a dental technician cadet so misconducts
himself or proves himself so incapable that if he were an
employee other than a dental technician cadet it would be
reasonable for his employer to discharge him, the employer
may immediately suspend him and apply to the Council
for leave to discharge him.

A.10.2 Every such application shall be made to the
Council within 5 working days after the dental technician
cadet is suspended, and, subject to the decision of council,
the employer may withhold any wages accruing due to the
dental technician cadet during the period of suspension.

A.10.3 The Council shall consider the application, after
giving the employer, the dental technician cadet, and his
parent or guardian (if any), an opportunity to be heard,
and may grant or refuse leave to discharge the dental
technician cadet.

A.10.4 Where leave is granted the employer to discharge
the cadet, such discharge shall be as from the date of his
suspension and the contract of dental technician cadetship
shall be deemed to be cancelled.

A.10.5 Where leave to discharge the dental technician
cadet is refused by the Council, the Council may make such
order as it thinks fit with respect to payment of wages to
the dental technician cadet during the period of his suspension
and if no such order is made the employer shall pay to
the dental technician cadet all wages that would have been
payable to him had he not been suspended.

A.11 Certificate of Service

A.11.1 Upon the termination of the contract for any
reason, including its due completion, the employer shall
issue a certificate of service to the cadet. The certificate
shall be in a form approved by the Council, and there
may be different kinds of forms of certificate according to
the circumstances under which the contract is terminated.

A.12 Definition of Dental Technician Cadet

A.12.1 A dental technician cadet is a full time student
who, during the term of his contract, is employed full time
by the employer subject to the release for a minimum period
of 8 weeks in each year to attend technical classes as approved
by the Dental Technician Training Council.

A.12.2 The time spent by dental technician cadets in
technical education, as provided in subclause 12.1 of this
clause, shall be counted as ordinary hours of work and as
time served.

APPENDIX I

CONTRACT OF DENTAL TECHNICIAN CADETSHIP

This contract, made the day of
19......, between [Full name of employer]
of [Address and occupation], hereinafter called “the
employer” of the first part, and [Full name of dental
technician cadet's parent or guardian] of [Address],
hereinafter called “the guardian” of the second part, and
[Full name of dental technician cadet] of
[Address], a minor born on the day of
19......, hereinafter called “the dental technician cadet” of
the third part:

Witnesseth as follows:

1. The employer hereby covenants with the dental
   technician cadet: and the employer, as a separate covenant
   with the guardian, also covenants with the guardian that
   the employer take the dental technician cadet into his
   employment as a dental technician cadet in the dental
   technician industry and the dental technician cadet and the
   guardian hereby jointly and severally covenant with the
   employer that the dental technician cadet will serve the
   employer as a dental technician cadet for the term and
   upon and subject to the conditions set forth in the Determination
   of the Dental Technician Training Council established
   as provided for in section 3 of the Technicians Training
   Act 1967.

2. The term of the dental technician cadetship hereby
   created shall be years commencing on the day
   of 19....., and shall be served at such place or
   places as may from time to time be mutually agreed upon
   by the parties hereto as expedient and necessary to the
   proper performance of the contract.

3. The dental technician cadet covenants that he shall
   diligently and faithfully obey and serve the employer as
   his dental technician cadet for the hereinbefore-prescribed
   term and that he will not commit or permit or be accessory
   to any hurt or damage to the employer or his property
   but will do everything in his power to prevent any such
   hurt or damage occurring.

4. The employer covenants during the prescribed term of
   the dental technician cadetship to the best of his power,
   knowledge, and skill to train and instruct the dental
   technician cadet or cause him to be so trained and instructed
   to the extent that at the expiration of the said time he
   will have been given the opportunity to become competent
   in all such branches of the dental technician industry as
   are required in the fulfilment of the course of study which
   meet the requirements of the Dental Technician Training
   Council.

Without limiting the generality of this contract the
employer further covenants that the employer will train the
dental technician cadet in each and all the operations and
skills set out and described in the Schedule—Training
Scheme for Dental Technician Cadets.

5. The dental technician cadet covenants further that he
   will enrol for and diligently carry on with such courses
   of study as will enable him, during the term of his contract,
   to sit for the examinations required by the Dental Technician
   Training Council.