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Automated Vehicles Act 2024
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(1)An inspector may—
(a)produce and publish information about the safety of authorised automated vehicles or about investigations;
(b)support the functions of a person within subsection (3);
(c)assist any other person in or outside the United Kingdom, with or without charge, in doing anything that the inspector considers would contribute to—
(i)the purpose in section 61, or
(ii)an equivalent purpose outside Great Britain;
(d)carry out such other functions as the inspector considers would contribute to such a purpose.
(2)The Secretary of State may make regulations—
(a)requiring an inspector to exercise a power in subsection (1) in such manner as is specified in the regulations;
(b)limiting the manner in which any such power may be exercised.
(3)The persons referred to in subsection (1)(b) are—
(a)a person appointed as an inspector of marine accidents under section 267 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995;
(b)a person responsible for the investigation of accidents arising out of or in the course of air navigation under regulations made under section 75 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982;
(c)a person appointed as an inspector of rail accidents under section 3 of the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003;
(d)a person responsible for the investigation of accidents arising out of or in the course of spaceflight activities under regulations made under section 20 of the Space Industry Act 2018;
(e)any other person an inspector considers to have functions corresponding to those of an inspector, or a person within the preceding paragraphs, whether in or outside the United Kingdom.
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I1S. 72 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 99(1)
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