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26. Symbol or design of Authority
(1) The Authority shall have the exclusive right to the use of such symbol, design or representation as it may select or devise in connection with its activities or affairs.
(2) A person who uses a symbol, design or representation identical with that of the Authority or which so resembles the symbol, design or representation thereof so as to deceive or cause confusion or to be likely to deceive or cause confusion shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding P1000.
(1) The Authority shall have the exclusive right to the form and presentation of its titles of certificates or other qualifications issued by the Authority to any person who attains any of the three levels of qualification within the Framework.
(2) Any person who issues or uses, or causes or permits the use of titles of certificates or other qualifications identical with those of the Authority shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding P3000.
(1) The Board shall, within a period of six months after the end of the financial year or within such longer period as the Minister may approve, submit to the Minister a comprehensive report on its operations during such year together with the auditor's report and the audited accounts as provided for in section 22 and the Board shall publish them in such manner as the Minister may specify.
(2) The Minister shall, not later than 30 days after the first sitting of the National Assembly next after the receipt of the Board's report, lay it before the National Assembly.
29. Protection from personal liability
No matter or thing done by any member of the Board or by any officer or employee of the Authority shall, if the matter or thing is done bona fide for the purpose of executing any provision of this Act, render such person personally liable to any action, claim or demand.
Any person who contravenes any of the provision of this Act in respect of which no penalty is provided shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding P5000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months or to both.
The Minister may, after consultation with the Board, make regulations for any matter which under this Act is to be prescribed or for the better carrying out of the provisions and purposes of this Act, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, such regulations may provide for-
(a) prescribing procedures of accrediting, registering and monitoring of both public and private training institutions;
(b) the procedure for accrediting teachers, programme courses and determination of equivalences of qualifications within the Framework;
(c) prescribing national training standards for the various qualification levels within the Framework;
(d) prescribing the manner of accrediting, monitoring and evaluating the implementation of programme courses;
(e) regulating the national training awards system in accordance with the Framework;
(f) regulating the manner of assessment and testing within the vocational training system being developed;
(g) prescribing the manner of conducting research and disseminating research outcomes, nationally or internationally, in the area of vocational training;
(h) approving and declaring vocations to be apprenticeable and regulating any other matter affecting apprenticeship training.
(1) Any responsibility or function of the Authority under this Act which immediately before the coming into operation of this Act, has been or is performed by any other person or institution shall be deemed to be transferred to the Authority.
(2) Any person who, at the coming into operation of this Act is carrying on the business or activity of vocational training in public or private institutions, shall within six months of the coming into operation of this Act, comply with the provisions of this Act and regulations made thereunder.
Notwithstanding the repeal of the Apprenticeship and Industrial Training Act, any person awarded with a certificate under the Apprenticeship and Industrial Training Act before the commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to have been so qualified under this Act.
