16 Approval of codes of practice by [the Executive]
Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (1974 c 37) | Legislation

16  Approval of codes of practice by [the Executive]

(1)     For the purpose of providing practical guidance with respect to the requirements of any provision of [any of the enactments or instruments mentioned in subsection (1A) below], [the Executive] may, subject to the following subsection < . . . >—

(a)     approve and issue such codes of practice (whether prepared by it or not) as in its opinion are suitable for that purpose;

(b)     approve such codes of practice issued or proposed to be issued otherwise than by [the Executive] as in its opinion are suitable for that purpose.

[(1A)     Those enactments and instruments are—

(a)     sections 2 to 7 above;

(b)     health and safety regulations, except so far as they make provision exclusively in relation to transport systems falling within paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 3 to the Railways Act 2005; and

(c)     the existing statutory provisions that are

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