Industrial Training Act 1964

13 Special provisions for cotton industry

(1) If the activities which are to be or are for the time being specified in an industrial training order are the same as those which under the Industrial Organisation and Development Act 1947 are designated as constituting the industry in relation to which the Cotton Board exercises functions under that Act, the industrial training order may be so made or amended as to provide for the exercise by the Cotton Board, instead of by an industrial training board, of the functions of an industrial training board in relation to those activities.

(2) Any functions exercisable by the Cotton Board by virtue of this section shall be exercisable by it through a committee (in this section referred to as the " industrial training committee ") consisting of a chairman, who shall be appointed by the Minister as a person appearing to him to have industrial or commercial experience, and—

(a) the members of the Board who are not independent members within the meaning of the said Act of 1947 ; and

(b) persons appointed by the Minister after consultation with the Secretary of State and the Minister of Education;

and, subject to the following provisions of this section, references in this Act, except in sections 1 and 15 and the Schedule, to an industrial training board shall be construed as including references to the Cotton Board acting through the industrial training committee.

(3) The chairman of the industrial training committee and the persons appointed under paragraph (b) of the preceding subsection shall not vote on any matter relating to the imposition of a levy.

(4) Any accounts and records to be kept and reports to be made under section 8 of this Act which are to be so kept or made by the Cotton Board by virtue of this section shall relate only to its functions under this Act; and those functions shall not be dealt with in the report and statement made by it under the said Act of 1947 ; and—

(a) the reference in section 4(1) of this Act to the expenses of an industrial training board shall not include any expenses of the Cotton Board which are not attributable to this Act;

(b) any sums borrowed by the Cotton Board for the purposes of its functions under this Act shall be in addition to the total amount of the borrowings permitted for other purposes, shall be charged on the assets attributable to this Act and shall be repayable (together with any interest thereon) out of those assets and not otherwise, and section 5(5) of this Act shall apply only to money held by the Cotton Board in pursuance of this Act; and

(c) the references in section 9(3) of this Act to the winding up of an industrial training board shall not apply to the Cotton Board and the references therein to assets and liabilities shall not include any assets and liabilities which are not attributable to this Act.

(5) The Cotton Board—

(a) shall pay to the chairman of the industrial training committee such remuneration (if any) as the Minister may from time to time with the approval of the Treasury determine;

(b) may pay to the members of the industrial training committee such travelling, subsistence and other allowances as the Cotton Board may determine.

(6) The Cotton Board may appoint such officers and servants for the purposes of the functions exercisable by it under this section, upon such terms as to remuneration, pension rights and other conditions of service, as the Cotton Board may determine and, in the case of pension rights, the Minister may approve.

(7) Paragraphs 6 to 9 of the Schedule to this Act shall apply in relation to the industrial training committee and its members as they apply in relation to an industrial training board and its members.

(8) If an order is made under section 7 of this Act declaring the Cotton Board to be in default the references in subsection (3) of that section to the members of the industrial training board shall be construed as referring to members of the industrial training committee and subsection (4) of that section shall not apply, except in so far as it excludes paragraph 7(a) of the Schedule as applied by subsection (7) of this section.