Posted By teaboy Morning All, just a quickie, Is the Highway Code an ACoP, CoP or guidance, not having a copy to hand, and unable to find clarification on the website, i thought I'd ask my learned colleagues. thanks in advance

Posted By CFT Agree with Toby. CFT

Posted By The toecap If i remeber rightly it states. This is a guide for road users.

Posted By Konstanty Budkiewicz Teaboy, This is a readable link that may solve your problem: http://www.direct.gov.uk...rt/Highwaycode/DG_070236 It includes both law and ACOP best practice, read on. Kon

Posted By Alan Hoskins Here is an extract from the introduction to the Code: Many of the rules in the Code are legal requirements, and if you disobey these rules you are committing a criminal offence. You may be fined, given penalty points on your licence or be disqualified from driving. In the most serious cases you may be sent to prison. Such rules are identified by the use of the words ‘MUST/MUST NOT’. In addition, the rule includes an abbreviated reference to the legislation which creates the offence. An explanation of the abbreviations can be found in 'The road user and the law'. Although failure to comply with the other rules of the Code will not, in itself, cause a person to be prosecuted, The Highway Code may be used in evidence in any court proceedings under the Traffic Acts (see 'The road user and the law') to establish liability. This includes rules which use advisory wording such as ‘should/should not’ or ‘do/do not’. Alan