§ 80. Mr. Sorensenasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies in which Colonies and Protectorates corporal punishment is still being inflicted as a legal punishment for any offences other than for violent attacks on prison officers.
§ Mr. J. GriffithsCorporal punishment may still be inflicted by the courts in all but a few Colonial territories. The legal position remains as set out in the detailed reply to my hon. Friend's Question of 19th April; but I have addressed Colonial Governors with a view to securing in all territories the complete abolition of such punishment, as a sanction imposed by the courts, as rapidly as we possibly can.