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employment and residential accommodation for approved persons,".

7. After Part IV. of the Principal Act the following Parts are inserted:—

"Part IVa.—Training Fees for Eligible Organizations.

Definition.
"16a. In this Part, 'normal employment', in relation to a person, means—
      (a) full-time employment of the person with an employer at rates of pay normally paid in respect of employment in the occupation concerned; or
      (b) full-time engagement (other than as an employee) of the person in any employment, occupation or business that provides, or will provide, the person with an income at an annual rate not less than an amount per annum equal to the aggregate of the amount included in the annual rate specified in paragraph (a) of sub-section (1a.) of section 28 of the Social Services Act 1947–1970 and the amount specified in paragraph (a) of sub-section (2.) of that section.

Training fees.
"16b.—(1.) Where—
      (a) a disabled person who has completed a continuous period of not less than six months' sheltered employment provided by an eligible organization completes, on or after the commencement of this Part, a further continuous period of twelve months' normal employment;
      (b) the two periods are continuous with one another or are separated by an interval that is so short that, in the opinion of the Director-General, it is not significant for the purposes of this section; and

      (c) the Director-General is satisfied that the training given to the disabled person during the period of sheltered employment contributed significantly to the ability of that person to engage in the normal employment,
the Director-General may, in his discretion, pay to the organization a training fee of Five hundred dollars.
"(2.) The Director-General may, by reason of special circumstances, direct that two or more periods of normal employment of a person and the intervals that separate them shall, together, be treated, for the purposes of paragraph (a) of the last preceding sub-section, as one continuous period of normal employment.
"(3.) A claim for the payment of a fee under this section shall be lodged with the Director-General within a period of six months, or such longer period as the Director-General approves in a particular case, commencing at the expiration of the period of twelve months' normal employment to which the claim relates.

"Part IVb.—Financial Assistance in respect of Approved Officers.

Definition.
"16c. In this Part, 'approved officer' means a person in respect of whom a direction is in force under the next succeeding section.

Approved officers.
"16d. Where—
      (a) a person is employed by an eligible organization wholly or partly to provide services of a supervisory, medical, counselling or other kind in connexion with the employment of disabled persons in sheltered employment provided by the organization;