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South Australia
Criminal Law Consolidation (Reasonable Chastisement of
Children) Amendment Bill 2007
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Criminal Law Consolidation
Act 1935.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Criminal Law Consolidation
Act 1935
4 Amendment of section 20—Assault
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Criminal Law Consolidation (Reasonable
Chastisement of Children) Amendment Act 2007.
This Act will come into operation 1 month after the day on which it is
assented to.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Criminal Law Consolidation
Act 1935
4—Amendment of
section 20—Assault
Section 20(2)—after paragraph (a) insert:
(ab) conduct that lies within limits of what would be generally accepted
in the community as reasonable chastisement or correction of a child by a parent
of the child, or a person in loco parentis of the child, cannot amount to
an assault; and