Hong Kong Ordinances

EMPLOYEES RETRAINING ORDINANCE - SECT 20

Eligibility of applicant to receive a retraining allowance

(1) Subject to section 22(3), an applicant referred to in section  19 (2)
shall be eligible to receive a retraining allowance as a trainee if he-

   (a)  has been referred to a training body or training provider under
        section 18(2);

   (b)  has been invited to attend a retraining course or supplementary 
        retraining programme as a trainee by that training body or training 
        provider under section 19(2);

   (c)  complies with such attendance and other requirements for trainees as
        may be specified by that training body or training provider in respect
        of that retraining course or supplementary retraining programme; and

   (d)  is not receiving at the same time a retraining allowance or
some other similar payment however described ("existing payment") as a trainee
or otherwise in respect of another retraining course or
supplementary retraining programme or any other course however described
unless the Board decides, in the special circumstances of the case, to
disregard that existing payment.

(2) Where an applicant is eligible to receive a retraining  allowance as a
trainee in respect of his attendance at a retraining course or
supplementary retraining programme under subsection (1) but, at the same time,
he is receiving from whatever source a retraining allowance or some other
similar payment however described as a trainee or otherwise in respect of that
retraining course or supplementary retraining programme then the applicant
shall be eligible to receive the first mentioned retraining allowance only if
he forgoes the second mentioned retraining  allowance or other similar
payment. (Enacted 1992. Amended 102 of 1994 s. 12)