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1. In this Regulation, “certified trade” means the trade of refrigeration and air-conditioning mechanic; “refrigeration and air-conditioning mechanic” means a person who, (a) lays out, assembles, installs, maintains in the field any cooling or heating-cooling combination system for residential, commercial or industrial purposes within the limitation of the Energy Act, (b) installs or connects piping for the purpose of conveying refrigerant of all types for either primary or secondary cooling, (c) overhauls or repairs any equipment used in a refrigeration or air-conditioning system, and (d) tests, adjusts, maintains all controls on refrigeration or air-conditioning systems including air-balancing, but does not include a person who is engaged in the repair or installation of single-phase hermetically sealed domestic self-contained units with factory mass-produced systems precharged with refrigerant, or a person employed in production commonly known as mass production. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 1076, s. 1.
2. The trade of refrigeration and air-conditioning mechanic is designated as a certified trade for the purposes of the Act. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 1076, s. 2.
3. An apprentice training program is established for the certified trade and consists of five periods of related training and work experience training of 1,800 hours for each period, (a) at full time educational day classes provided at a college of applied arts and technology or in courses that in the opinion of the Director are equivalent thereto in the subjects contained in Schedule 1; and (b) in practical training and instruction provided by the employer of the apprentice in the subjects contained in Schedule 2. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 1076, s. 3.
4. The subjects of examination for an apprentice in the certified trade are the subjects contained in Schedules 1 and 2. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 1076, s. 4.
5. The rate of wages for an apprentice in the certified trade, whether for the apprentice’s regular daily hours of work or for hours of work in excess of the apprentice’s regular daily hours of work shall not be less than, (a) 40 per cent during the first period; (b) 50 per cent during the second period; (c) 60 per cent during the third period; (d) 70 per cent during the fourth period; and (e) 80 per cent during the fifth period, of the average hourly rate of wages or its equivalent for journeymen in that trade employed by the employer with whom the apprentice is working. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 1076, s. 5.
6. The number of apprentices who may be employed by an employer in the certified trade shall not exceed, (a) where the employer is a journeyman in the trade, one apprentice plus an additional apprentice for each three journeymen in the trade employed by that employer; (b) where the employer is not a journeyman in the trade, one apprentice for the first journeyman in the trade employed by the employer plus an additional apprentice for each additional three journeymen in the trade employed by that employer. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 1076, s. 6.
7. Any person who, (a) applies in the prescribed form for apprenticeship in the certified trade; and (b) works in that trade for three months or less, is exempt from subsection 10 (2) of the Act. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 1076, s. 7.
8. The Director shall issue a progress record book to each apprentice and the apprentice shall record therein the time that the apprentice spends in related training and work experience and the apprentice shall be responsible for the safekeeping of that progress record book. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 1076, s. 8.