Northern Territory Numbered Acts Northern Territory Numbered Acts(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.