ACOP's From Introduction to Health & Safety at Work (The Handbook for the NEBOSH National General Certificate)
"ACOPs have a special legal status (sometimes refered to as quasi-legal). ... If a company is prosecuted for a breach of health and safety law and it is proved that it has not followed the relevant provisions of the ACOP, a court can find them at fault, unless the company can shown that it has complied with the lae in some other way."
About the best description that I've come across so far.
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