Western Australian Current Regulations

SCHOOL EDUCATION REGULATIONS 2000 - REG 40

40 .         School discipline, principal’s general powers as to breaches of

        (1)         Subject to Part 3 Division 5 of the Act, regulation 36 and this Division, the principal of a government school may determine —

            (a)         the ways in which students at the school may be disciplined for breaches of school discipline; and

            (b)         the breaches of school discipline that are to be dealt with by —

                  (i)         the principal; or

                  (ii)         any other member of the teaching staff.

        (2)         A student at a government school is not to be disciplined by way of corporal punishment.