The Health and Safety Commission Is Empowered by Statute to Produce

Multiple Choice

The Health and Safety Commission is empowered by statute to produce Codes of Practice providing employers with advice on meeting their legal obligations. The Codes have a special legal effect. In legal proceedings, the Commission may use an employer's failure to abide by the Codes as evidence of fault by the employer, unless s/he can show that s/he has complied with the law in some other way. On the basis of this information, what is the most likely legal form of these Codes?

A) Statutory instrument.
B) By-law.
C) Tertiary legislation.
D) Soft law.