Section 37: Power to make rules

What section 37 does

Authorises the Central Government to make Apprenticeship Rules after consulting the Central Apprenticeship Council.

Connected instrument: Rule-making power; 2026 omission of sub-section (2)

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.

37. Power to make rules.—(1) The Central Government may, after consulting the Central
Apprenticeship Council, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes
of this Act.
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     [(1A) The powers to make rules under this section shall include the power to make such rules or any
of them retrospectively from a date not earlier than the date on which this Act received the assent of the
President, but no such retrospective effect shall be given to any such rule so as to prejudicially affect the
interests of any person to whom such rule may be applicable.]

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.