S.L. 594.9 Art. 5Processes to be learnt.

The employer engaging apprentices under this scheme shall undertake to teach them and to grant them facilities to learn the follovaing processes:

(1) General - Dismantling, assembly and fitting of stationary and working parts of gas meters and appliances including marking out, hack sawing, drilling by hand, chisel shearing, filing to instrument measure, countersinking and counterboring; use of appropriate tools and measuring instruments and test gauges; detection of faults in meters and appliances.

(2) Main Drain pipe laying - Laying of gas mains; making of branch connections and fittings for syphons and valves; closing of joints by caulking; sealing of flanges; cutting of threads.

(3) Internal fitting - Laying of gas pipes from main supply and connecting same to meters, cookers, geysers, heaters and other domestic appliances, including cutting of piping, jointing, caulking, sealing of flanges, and cutting of threads.

(4) Safety precautions.

(5) During the last year of apprenticeship the employer may cause the apprentice to specialise in either meter repairs, main pipe laying or internal fitting.