Subsection 1: Conditions for the formation of the contract.

No one may be taken on as an apprentice unless they are between the ages of sixteen and twenty-nine at the start of the apprenticeship. However, young people aged at least fifteen may begin an apprenticeship contract if they can prove that they have completed the first cycle of secondary education. Young people who reach the age of fifteen before the end of the calendar year may be enrolled in…

The age limit of twenty-nine is not applicable in the following cases: 1° When the proposed contract or period of apprenticeship follows on from a previously completed contract or period of apprenticeship and leads to a higher level of qualification than that obtained at the end of the previous contract or period of apprenticeship; 2° When the apprenticeship contract has been terminated for reasons beyond the apprentice’s control or as…

A decree shall determine the conditions for application of the derogations provided for in Article L. 6222-2, in particular the maximum period within which the apprenticeship contract referred to in 1° of that same Article must be signed after the previous contract has expired. Other measures for the application of this sub-section are determined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.