If certain powers of an Australian state school teacher are derived from the Crown, then there is significance in the exact nature of the way in which a ban on corporal punishment is expressed. If the legislation says that any individual in receipt of such powers may not use CP, then that denies any such teacher the right to use CP. But if it says that the existence of those powers is no defense against a charge of battery, then a defense may nevertheless arise in another way (for instance, by explicit parental delegation if a parent has such a right);
Should unlawful incidents of school CP be taken to the Courts20
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