Chapter:	423	Title:	EMPLOYEES RETRAINING ORDINANCE	Gazette Number:
Section:	21	Heading:	Application by trainee for payment of retraining allowance	Version Date:	30/06/1997

(1) Subject to subsection (2), a trainee who considers that he is eligible to receive a retraining allowance under section 20(1) may apply to the Board in accordance with section 22 for payment from the Fund of such an allowance in respect of his attendance or intended attendance at a retraining course or supplementary retraining programme provided or conducted by a training body or training provider.
(2) An application by the trainee under subsection (1) shall be submitted by the training body or training provider to the Board.
(3) Subject to section 22(3), the Board shall determine the application in accordance with section 23 and may approve the payment of a retraining allowance to the training body or training provider for distribution to the trainee under subsection (5).
(4) The maximum amount of the retraining allowance payable monthly in respect of the trainee under subsection (3) shall be the sum specified in Schedule 4, but where the trainee attends a retraining course or supplementary retraining programme for a period of less than 1 month, only a proportion of that retraining allowance shall be so payable, as calculated in accordance with guidelines approved by the Board from time to time.
(5) Subject to subsection (6), on the receipt by the training body or training provider of a retraining allowance under subsection (3) the training body or training provider shall, as soon as practicable and without making any deduction therefrom unless such deduction is approved by the Board, distribute that retraining allowance to the trainee making the application under subsection (1).
(6) Where a training body or training provider pays, or has paid, a trainee who is attending a retraining course or supplementary retraining programme provided or conducted by that training body or training provider a sum of money equivalent to the retraining allowance in respect of that trainee and in respect of which that training body or training provider has submitted an application under subsection (2) to the Board, then that training body or training provider may reimburse itself the amount of that sum on the receipt of that retraining allowance.