What section 13 does
Creates the statutory obligation to pay stipend at prescribed rates.
Connected instrument: Rule 11
Finin2min practical reading
- Identify the apprentice category, trade, establishment jurisdiction and applicable portal before applying the provision.
- Separate statutory apprenticeship from internships, probation, traineeships and ordinary employment.
- Do not treat scheme reimbursement as a substitute for the employer’s underlying statutory obligations.
- Preserve the contract, approvals, portal trail and training evidence as one auditable file.
Employer control and evidence pack
- Executed/registered contract and portal acknowledgement
- Training plan, attendance/work diary and supervisor records
- Stipend bank/DBT evidence where relevant
- Adviser approval, correspondence or order where the section requires it
Statutory text extract
Extracted from the bundled official/consolidated source. For sections amended in 2026, the current overlay above controls over older consolidated wording.
13. Payment to apprentices.—(1) The employer shall pay to every apprentice during the period of
apprenticeship training such stipend at a rate not less than the1[prescribed minimum rate, or the rate which
was being paid by the employer on 1st January, 1970 to the category of apprentices under which such
apprentice falls, whichever is higher,] as may be specified in the contract of apprenticeship and the
stipend so specified shall be paid at such intervals and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed.
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[(2) An apprentice shall not be paid by his employer on the basis of piece work nor shall he be
required to take part in any output bonus or other incentive scheme.]
STATE AMENDMENT
Maharashtra
Amendment of section 13 of 52 of 1961.—In section 13 of the principal Act, after the existing sub-
section (1), the following sub-sections shall be inserted, namely:—
“(1A) The minimum rate of stipend per month payable to trade apprentices who do training for eight
hours per day shall be as follows, namely:—
(a) During the first year of training . . Seventy per cent. of minimum wages
of semi-skilled workers notified by
the State.
(b) During the second year of training . .Eighty per cent. of minimum wages
of semi-skilled workers notified by
the State.
(c) During the third year of training . .Ninety per cent. of minimum wages
of semi-skilled workers notified by
the State.
(1B) The trade apprentices who do training for minimum four hours per day, the rate of stipend per
month shall be fifty per cent. of the rates mentioned in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of sub-section (1A),
respectively:
Provided that, in the case where the minimum rate of wage for a trade is not notified by the State,
then the maximum of minimum wages of the Scheduled Employment notified by the State for semi-
skilled workers shall be taken into account for paying the stipend in respect of that trade:
Provided further that, in the case of trade apprentices referred to in clause (a) of section 6 of the Act,
the period of training already undergone by them in a school or other institution recognized by the State
Council, shall be taken into account for the purpose of determining the rate of stipend payable.”.
[VideMaharashtra Act 17 of 2018, s. 5].
Rajasthan
Amendment of section 13, Central Act No. 52 of 1961.— For the existing section 13 of the
principal Act, the following shall be substituted, namely:-Compliance consequence
Failure should be tested against sections 30, 31 and 31A as in force from 22 June 2026, alongside contract termination/compensation consequences and any portal or scheme action.