division_name: Children Bill [HL]
motion: <p pid="a.518.5/1" pwmotiontext="moved">moved Amendment No. 106:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a.518.5/2" pwmotiontext="moved">After Clause 48, insert the following new clause&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.518.5/3" pwmotiontext="moved">"REASONABLE CHASTISEMENT</p>
  
  <p pid="a.518.5/4" pwmotiontext="moved">(1) Battery of a child cannot be justified in any proceedings on the grounds that it constituted lawful punishment.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.518.5/5" pwmotiontext="moved">(2) Battery of a child is not unlawful if the act amounts to the use of reasonable force in order to&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.518.5/6" pwmotiontext="moved">(a) avert an immediate danger to the child or any other person;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.518.5/7" pwmotiontext="moved">(b) avert an immediate danger to property; or</p>
  
  <p pid="a.518.5/8" pwmotiontext="moved">(c) prevent the commission of a crime, or an act which would be a crime if the child had reached the age of criminal responsibility.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.518.5/9" pwmotiontext="moved">(3) For the purpose of subsections (1) and (2) above "child" means a person under the age of 18.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.518.5/10" pwmotiontext="moved">(4) Section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (c. 12) (cruelty to persons under sixteen) is amended as follows.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.518.5/11" pwmotiontext="moved">(5) In subsection (7) at end insert "subject to subsection (8) below".</p>
  
  <p pid="a.518.5/12" pwmotiontext="moved">(6) After subsection (7) insert&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.518.5/13" pwmotiontext="moved">"(8) Corporal punishment administered to a child cannot be justified in any proceedings on the ground that it was administered in pursuance of a right exercisable by virtue of subsection (7) above.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.518.5/14" pwmotiontext="moved">(9) For the purpose of subsection (8) above, administering corporal punishment to a child means doing anything for the purpose of punishing that child which would constitute unlawful battery."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.518.5/15" pwmotiontext="moved">(7) This section extends to England and Wales only."</p>
  
  <p pid="a.566.1/1" pwmotiontext="considered">On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 106) shall be agreed to?</p>
  
  <p pid="a.566.1/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 74; Not-Contents, 249.</p>