Apprenticeship and Traineeship Act 2001

An employer that places an apprentice or trainee with a host employer under a host employment arrangement remains liable to fulfill the obligations imposed on the employer by this Act, but is taken to have fulfilled those obligations if they have been fulfilled by the host employer.

Without limiting subsection (1), an employer that places an apprentice or trainee with a host employer under a host employment arrangement—

must place the apprentice or trainee with host employers in a manner that ensures that the apprentice or trainee receives the work-based component of the required training in all aspects of the apprenticeship or traineeship, and

must properly supervise any such host employer in its provision of the required training to the apprentice or trainee, in particular—

by ensuring that the host employer releases the apprentice or trainee as required for attendance at the relevant registered training organisation, and

by liaising with the relevant registered training organisation in relation to the apprentice’s or trainee’s attendance and participation in the training provided by the relevant registered training organisation.

An employer (the principal employer) must not place an apprentice or trainee with a host employer if the principal employer knows—

that the host employer is a prohibited employer, and

that the employment of the apprentice or trainee by the host employer would be contrary to the relevant prohibition order.

(Repealed)