South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts32—Corporal punishment prohibited
(1) Corporal
punishment (however described) must not be imposed on a child enrolled in, or
attending at, a preschool or children's services centre.
(2) The
Chief Executive must take all reasonable steps to ensure that principals,
directors, officers of the teaching service and all other persons employed in,
or in relation to, a Government preschool or children's services centre comply
with subsection (1).
(3) For the purposes
of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 , corporal punishment will be
taken not to amount to conduct that lies within limits of what would be
generally accepted in the community as normal incidents of social interaction
or community life.