### Vocational Training Council Ordinance 《職業訓練局條例》

3. Application
The Education Ordinance (Cap. 279) shall not apply in respect of any technical college, technical institute, industrial training centre or skills centre.
(Amended 35 of 1991 s. 3)

4. Establishment of the Vocational Training Council
(1) There is hereby established a council, to be known as the Vocational Training Council, which shall in that name be a body corporate with perpetual succession and shall be capable of suing and being sued.
(2) The Council shall have a common seal, the affixing of which shall be authenticated by the signature of any 2 members of the Council.

5. Objects of the Council
The objects of the Council shall be—
(a) to advise the Chief Executive on the measures required to ensure a comprehensive system of technical education and industrial training suited to the developing needs of Hong Kong; (Amended 56 of 2000 s. 3)
(b) to institute, develop and operate schemes for training operatives, craftsmen, technicians and technologists needed to sustain and improve industry;
(c) to promote the training of apprentices; (Replaced 35 of 1991 s. 4)
(d) to provide and co-ordinate the provision of skills training to persons with a disability who are aged 15 and over for the purpose of improving their employment prospects and preparing them for open employment; (Added 35 of 1991 s. 4. Amended 2 of 2005 s. 3)
(e) to establish, operate and maintain technical colleges, technical institutes, industrial training centres and skills centres. (Added 35 of 1991 s. 4)

### Vocational Training Council Ordinance 《職業訓練局條例》

7. Delegation
(1) The Council may, either generally or in any particular case, delegate to any training board or general committee, any council committee or any public officer the performance or exercise on its behalf of any of its functions under this Ordinance.
(2) Where any function of the Council under this Ordinance is performed or exercised by a board, committee or public officer referred to in subsection (1), the performance or exercise shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been duly delegated to that board, committee or public officer as the case may be.

8. Membership of the Council
(1) The Council shall consist of the following members—
(a) such number of persons other than public officers, not exceeding 18, as the Chief Executive may appoint;
(b) such number of public officers, not exceeding 4, as the Chief Executive may appoint;
(c) the Executive Director. (Added 35 of 1991 s. 6)
(2) The Chief Executive shall appoint a Chairman of the Council from those members appointed under subsection (1)(a).
(3) The Chief Executive shall appoint such number of Deputy Chairmen of the Council as he may think fit from those members appointed under subsection (1)(a) and (b).
(4) Every member of the Council who is a public officer shall hold office at the discretion of the Chief Executive.
(5) Without prejudice to section 42 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1), every member of the Council who is appointed under subsection (1)(a) shall be appointed for such period as the Chief Executive may determine and may from time to time be reappointed.
(6) Any member of the Council who is appointed under subsection (1)(a) may at any time, by notice in writing to the Chief Executive, resign from the Council.
(7) If any member of the Council who is appointed under subsection (1)(a) is absent from Hong Kong or is for any other reason unable to exercise the powers or perform the duties of his office as a member, the Chief Executive may appoint another person to be a temporary member of the Council during the absence or incapacity of that member.
(8) All appointments made under subsection (1)(a) or (b), (2), (3) or (7) shall be published by notice in the Gazette.
(Amended 35 of 1991 s. 6; 56 of 2000 s. 3)

### Vocational Training Council Ordinance 《職業訓練局條例》

9. Director
(1) The Council may from time to time appoint an Executive Director to be the chief executive of the Council, and such Deputy Executive Directors and Assistant Executive Directors as may be appropriate to the proper and efficient functioning of the Council. (Replaced 35 of 1991 s. 7)
(1A) No appointment of an Executive Director shall be made by the Council under subsection (1) without the prior consent of the Chief Executive. (Added 35 of 1991 s. 7. Amended 56 of 2000 s. 3)
(2) The Executive Director and, with the consent of the Chairman, a Deputy Executive Director or Assistant Executive Director may attend any meeting of any council committee, training board or general committee. (Amended 35 of 1991 s. 7)

10. Establishment, membership and functions of training boards and general committees
(1) The Chief Executive may, on the advice of the Council, establish training boards and general committees.
(2) The Chief Executive shall appoint the chairman and members of any training board or general committee, none of whom need be a member of the Council.
(3) Training boards and general committees shall perform such functions as the Council may decide and shall report to the Council as often as the Council may decide.
(Amended 56 of 2000 s. 3)

11. Establishment and membership of council committees
The Council may establish council committees to assist it to perform its functions and shall appoint the chairman and members of any such committee, of which at least two thirds of the membership shall be members of the Council.

12. Funds and property of the Council
The funds and property of the Council shall consist of—
(a) all moneys appropriated by the Legislative Council for the purposes of the Council;
(b) all moneys lawfully received by the Council by way of grants, loans, funds, donations, fees, rent or interest;
(c) all moneys derived from the sale of any property held by or on behalf of the Council; and
(d) all property and assets lawfully acquired by the Council.

13. Rights and obligations of technical institutes
(1) All contractual and other rights exercisable or enforceable by or on behalf of the technical institutes before the commencement of this Ordinance shall on the commencement thereof become and be exercisable and enforceable by the Council.
(2) On the commencement of this Ordinance the Council shall become liable for all debts and liabilities and for the performance of all contractual and other obligations incurred by or on behalf of the technical institutes before the commencement of this Ordinance.