[Terry_Roll]

It is the Law in some situations.

So in the Highway Code, if it says Must or Must Not , then its law.

Expand the section called "Wording of the Highway Code". https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/introduction

Unfortunately despite all the UK Gov website cheer leading on sites like this, I cant provide a link to the expanded section in question!

[iainmerrick]

I would see those parts as just explaining the law, where the law is a separate thing, rather than defining the law. Maybe that’s just splitting hairs, though.

[Terry_Roll]

Its a bit like the ACPO speeding enforcement guidelines https://www.npcc.police.uk/2018%20FOI/Operations/030%2018%20... https://library.college.police.uk/docs/appref/ACPO-Speed-Enf...

Magistrates will take the above as Law, its one of those grey areas of law, so selective application of the law exists, and thats before you even get into a debate of whether you have a say in the laws that you are born under if you havent moved abroad.

[pmyteh]

No, you're right. Those sections are included in the Highway Code to inform drivers, but it's not the placement in the code that makes them law - that's the original Act that the Code refers to.