Regulation 3 Off-the-job training

It is a condition of an approved English apprenticeship for the purposes of section A1(2) of the Act that the apprentice is to receive off-the-job training.

Each approved English apprenticeship agreement must specify the amount of time the apprentice is to receive off-the-job training during the period of the agreement.

For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2)—

• “off-the-job training” means training which is not on-the-job training and is received by the apprentice, during the apprentice's normal working hours, for the purpose of achieving the F1published standard to which the agreement or arrangement relates;

• “on-the-job training” means training which is received by the apprentice during the apprentice's normal working hours for the sole purpose of enabling the apprentice to perform the work to which the agreement or arrangement relates.

For the purposes of paragraph (3), “normal working hours” means the period when the apprentice is required or, as the case may be, expected, under the agreement or arrangement, to work or to receive training.