(1) A failure on the part of any person to act in accordance with any provision of the data-sharing code or the direct marketing code does not of itself render that person liable to any legal proceedings in any court or tribunal.
(2) Those codes are admissible in evidence in any legal proceedings.
(3) If any provision of those codes appears to -
(a)the Tribunal or a court conducting any proceedings under this Act or the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/2426),
(b) a court or tribunal conducting any other legal proceedings, or
(c)the Commissioner carrying out any function under this Act or those Regulations,
to be relevant to any question arising in the proceedings, or in connection with the exercise of that jurisdiction or the carrying out of those functions, in relation to any time when it was in force, that provision of the code must be taken into account in determining that question.
(4) In this section "the data-sharing code" and