Regulation 4

after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:—

“(2A)

Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the persons to whom payments of grant are made under regulation 6A shall secure that no child for whom funded education is provided is given corporal punishment by any person employed in, or in connection with, the provision of such education.”.

after paragraph (3) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:—

“(4)

In paragraph (2A) “funded education” means education in respect of which payments of grant are made under regulation 6A.

(5)

Subject to paragraph (6), the reference in paragraph (2A) to giving corporal punishment is a reference to doing anything for the purposes of punishing the child concerned (whether or not there are also other reasons for doing it) which, apart from any justification, would constitute battery.

(6)

A person is not to be taken for the purposes of paragraph (2A) as giving corporal punishment by virtue of anything done for reasons that include averting an immediate danger of personal injury to, or an immediate danger to property of, any person (including the child concerned).”.