PART 4STANDARDS
CHAPTER 9GENERAL
Codes of practice
69Failure to comply with codes
1
A person's failure to comply with a provision of an approved code of practice does not render that person liable to enforcement action of any kind.
2
But if any action under this Measure is taken in respect of a failure of a person (P) to comply with a standard (“the alleged standards failure”)—
a
a failure by P to comply with a relevant provision of an approved code of practice may be relied upon as tending to establish that P is liable for the alleged standards failure, and
b
compliance with a relevant provision of an approved code of practice may be relied upon as tending to establish that P is not liable for the alleged standards failure.
3
References in this section to an approved code of practice are references—
a
to a standards code of practice as it has effect for the time being, and
b
where a standards code of practice has been revised, to that code as revised as it has effect for the time being.