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(4-A) In the case of objection in the contract of apprenticeship, the Apprenticeship Adviser shall convey the objection to the employer within fifteen days from the date of its receipt.

(4-B) The Apprenticeship Adviser shall register the contract of apprenticeship within thirty days from the date of its receipt.] (6) Where the Central Government, after consulting the Central Apprenticeship Council, makes any rule varying the terms and conditions of apprenticeship training of any category of apprentices undergoing such training, then, the terms and conditions of every contract of apprenticeship relating to that category of apprentices and subsisting immediately before the making of such rule shall be deemed to have been modified accordingly.]

5. Novation of contract of apprenticeship.- Where an employer with whom a contract of apprenticeship has been entered into, is, for any reason, unable to fulfil his obligations under the contract and with the approval of the Apprenticeship Adviser it is agreed between the employer, the apprentice or his guardian and any other employer that the apprentice shall be engaged as an apprentice under the other employer for the unexpired portion of the period of apprenticeship training, the agreement, on registration with the Apprenticeship Adviser, shall be deemed to be the contract of apprenticeship between the apprentice or his guardian and the other employer, and on and from the date of such registration, the contract of apprenticeship with the first employer shall terminate and no obligation under that contract shall be enforceable at the instance of any party to the contract against the other party thereto.

[(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other provision of this Act, where a contract of apprenticeship has been terminated by the Apprenticeship Adviser before the expiry of the period of apprenticeship training and a new contract of apprenticeship is being entered into with a new employer, the Apprenticeship Adviser may, if he is satisfied that the contract of apprenticeship with the previous employer could not be completed because of any lapse on the part of the previous employer, permit the period of apprenticeship training already undergone by the apprentice with his previous employer to be included in the period of apprenticeship training to be undertaken with the new employer.]"

901.WP3767_2018.DOC shall be one year and that it shall not be obligatory on the part of the HPCL to offer an employment to an apprentice on completion of period of apprenticeship training in the establishment. Further, nor shall it be obligatory on the part of the apprentice to accept an employment under the employer. It was also specifically provided that if there is any recruitment, the employer (HPCL) would formulate its own policy, for recruiting any apprentice who has completed the period of apprenticeship training in the establishment in terms of sub-section (1) of Section 22 of the Apprentices Act. Also, Section 22 clearly provides that every employer (in the present case the HPCL) shall formulate its own policy for recruiting any apprentice who has completed the period of apprenticeship training in the establishment and only where there is a condition in the contract of apprenticeship that the apprentice shall, after the successful completion of apprenticeship training, serve the employer, the employer shall, on such completion, be bound to offer suitable employment to the apprentice, and the apprentice shall be bound to serve the employer in that capacity for such period and on such remuneration as may be specified in the contract. With a further proviso, that where such period or remuneration is not, in the opinion of the Apprenticeship Advisor, reasonable, he may revise such period or remuneration so as to make it reasonable, and the period of remuneration so revised shall be deem to be the period or remuneration agreed to between the apprenticeship and the employer, as provided for under sub-section (2) of Section 22 of the Apprentices Act. Thus, even under sub-section (2), it does not categorically speak about a regular/permanent employment but only a contract post completion of the