Boilers and Pressure Vessels Ordinance

(1)
For the purpose of ensuring acceptable standards in the design, manufacture, installation, maintenance, examination, testing and operation of boilers and pressure vessels, the Authority may give advice, either generally in the form of Codes of Practice or particularly in writing, to any person.
(2)
Failure on the part of any person to observe the provisions of any such Code or to accept any such particular advice shall not of itself render that person liable to criminal proceedings of any kind, but any such failure may, in any proceedings whether civil or criminal and including proceedings for an offence under this Ordinance, be relied upon by any party to the proceedings as tending to establish or to negative any liability which is in question in those proceedings.
(3)
The Authority shall give notice in the Gazette of the publication of any advice given under subsection (1) in the form of a Code of Practice.