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Amend the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 to remove any existing |
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defence which justifies the corporal punishment of children and to give |
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Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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1 | Amendment of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 |
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(1) | Section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (c. 12) (cruelty to persons |
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under sixteen) is amended as follows. |
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(2) | In subsection (7), at the beginning there is inserted “Subject to subsection (8) of |
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(3) | After subsection (7), there is inserted— |
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“(8) | Corporal punishment given to a child by, or on the authority of, any |
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person, including a parent or guardian, cannot be justified in any |
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proceedings on the ground that it was given in pursuance of a right |
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exercisable by the person. |
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(9) | Any reference to giving corporal punishment to a child is to doing |
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anything for the purpose of punishing that child (whether or not there |
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are other reasons for doing it) which, apart from any justification, |
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would constitute battery. |
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(10) | However, corporal punishment shall not be taken to be given to a child |
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by virtue of anything done for reasons that include averting— |
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(a) | an immediate danger of personal injury to, or |
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(b) | an immediate danger to the property of, |
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| any person (including the child himself). |
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(11) | For the purposes of subsections (8) to (10) “child” means a person under |
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the age of eighteen years. |
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Corporal Punishment of Children (Abolition) Bill |
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To amend the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 to remove any existing |
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defence which justifies the corporal punishment of children and to give |
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children the same protection as adults under the law on assault. |
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