Automated Vehicles Act 2024

35 Redress notices

(1) The Secretary of State may issue a redress notice to a regulated body if satisfied that—

(a) a regulatory requirement is not, or has not been, met by the body, and

(b) as a result, users of roads in Great Britain have suffered loss, damage, inconvenience or annoyance.

(2) The Secretary of State may issue a redress notice to an authorised self-driving entity if satisfied that—

(a) an authorised automated vehicle has committed a traffic infraction while the entity was responsible for it, and

(b) as a result, users of roads in Great Britain have suffered loss, damage, inconvenience or annoyance.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if it appears to the Secretary of State that the commission of the traffic infraction was wholly caused by a failure of a licensed no-user-in-charge operator to comply with a requirement under operator licensing regulations.

(4) A redress notice is a notice requiring the person to whom it is issued to take such actions within subsection (5) as are specified in the notice.

(5) The actions that may be specified are actions that the Secretary of State considers appropriate in order to rectify, mitigate, or compensate for (whether directly or indirectly) the loss, damage, inconvenience or annoyance that has been suffered.

(6) A redress notice must—

(a) explain the Secretary of State’s reasons for issuing the notice, and

(b) specify the time by which, or period during which, the specified actions must be taken.

(7) If a redress notice requires a regulated body to pay a sum of money to another person, the sum may be recovered by that person as a civil debt.

(8) The reference in subsection (4) to taking action includes refraining from taking action; and “actions” in this section is to be read accordingly.

(9) In this section, “users of roads” includes persons exercising statutory functions in relation to roads.