§ MR. WEDGWOOD (Newcastle-under-Lyme)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will say for what offences a male juvenile offender is now liable to corporal punishment by order of the Court.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) Boys under Hi convicted on indictment 298 so far as they are distinguished in the returns, were—
§ may be ordered by the Court to be whipped for a large number of offences under the Larceny Act, 1861, The Malicious Injuries to Property Act, 1861, and The Offences against the Person Act, 1861, and for offences under Section 4 of The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885; also for those offences (garotting, &c.) for which adults may be whipped, but of these boys are rarely, if over, convicted. Boys under 14 may also be whipped by order of a court of summary jurisdiction on conviction of any indictable offence which is dealt with summarily by such a court.