Corporal punishment prohibited

In force

(1)

This section applies to every person who is:

(a)

a member of the staff of a school; or

(b)

engaged to teach or support teaching at a school.

(2) The person must not administer any form of corporal punishment to a student enrolled in the school.

(3) Despite anything to the contrary in section 11 of the Criminal Code, a person mentioned in subsection (1) does not have, and cannot be given, any delegated power to apply force to a child for the purposes of discipline, management or control.

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162 Corporal punishment prohibited