41Right to employment

##### 41 Right to employment (1) Where a contract of apprenticeship is revived, the apprentice shall be entitled to resume his apprenticeship under the contract, and shall have absolute preference in employment over any apprentice engaged during his absence on war service, and the employer shall not refuse to permit the apprentice to resume his employment. Penalty: Two hundred dollars. (2) Where a contract of apprenticeship is revived, the Apprenticeship Authority may, if it considers it necessary so to do in order to protect the interests of any apprentice engaged during the period during which the contract was suspended: (a) if the number of apprentices who may be employed by the employer is limited by any law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory, or by any industrial award, order, determination or agreement—determine the number of apprentices who may be employed by the employer; and (b) in any event—authorize the transfer of any contract of apprenticeship to another employer. (3) Where the Apprenticeship Authority, in pursuance of the last preceding subsection, determines the number of apprentices who may be employed by an employer, the employer may employ that number of apprentices.