(1) The Technical and Vocational Education and Training Council may, with the approval of the Minister and subject to section 125, formulate schemes for regulating training in any occupation.
(2) A term of any contract for training registered before the date of the coming into force of the scheme may not be revoked or varied by means of a scheme.
(3) A scheme may contain, in respect of any occupation to which it relates—
(a) the qualifications, including the age and educational standards required for trainees;
(b) the practical training that employers are required to provide for their trainees;
(c) the theoretical training that is required to be provided by, or at the expense of, employers for their trainees, or that trainees are required to undergo, and the manner in which the training is to be provided or undergone;
(d) the proficiency tests or examinations that trainees are required to take;
(e) the maximum number of ordinary working hours including overtime, trainees may be required or permitted to work during any day, week or other specified period;
(f) the days on which, the hours in any day before or after which, and the intervals during which, no trainee can be required or permitted to work;
(g) the minimum wages and other conditions that apply to trainees;
(h) the minimum remuneration and other conditions that apply in respect of any period during which a trainee is unable, by reason of any condition of training, or other circumstances, to render service to his or her employer during working hours; and
(i) any other matter that, in the opinion of the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Council, with the approval of the Minister, is necessary for the effective operation of the scheme.
(4) Different conditions of training may be specified in a scheme in respect of different classes of employers, trainees or occupations and the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Council may, in determining the different conditions for any scheme, apply any method of differentiation it thinks fit.
(5) A scheme may be amended by a subsequent scheme or by an order made by the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Council with the approval of the Minister.