South Australian Numbered Acts

EDUCATION AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ACT 2019 (NO 19 OF 2019) - SECT 83

83—Corporal punishment prohibited

        (1)         Corporal punishment (however described) must not be imposed on a student enrolled or attending at a Government or a non-Government school.

        (2)         The Chief Executive must take all reasonable steps to ensure that principals, officers of the teaching service and all other persons employed in, or in relation to, Government schools comply with subsection (1)

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        (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.

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