Automated Vehicles Act 2024

40Power to require reports from police and local authorities

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(1)The Secretary of State may, by regulations, require an authority within subsection (3) to report to the Secretary of State incidents which—

(a)occur in the area of the authority, and

(b)are of a description set out in the regulations.

(2)Such regulations may limit the requirement to cases in which the Secretary of State requests a report.

(3)The authorities within this subsection are—

(a)a chief officer of police;

(b)a strategic highways company;

(c)the Scottish Ministers (in their capacity as roads authority or traffic authority);

(d)the Welsh Ministers (in their capacity as highways authority or traffic authority);

(e)a combined authority (established under section 103 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009) that exercises functions in relation to highways or road traffic;

(f)a county council or county borough council;

(g)a district council for an area for which there is no county council;

(h)a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;

(i)Transport for London;

(j)a London borough council;

(k)the Common Council of the City of London (in its capacity as a local authority);

(l)the Council of the Isles of Scilly.

(4)Regulations under this section must be framed with the intention that only relevant incidents, or incidents that may be found to be relevant incidents, will be reported.

(5)In subsection (4), “relevant incidents” has the same meaning as in section 39.

(6)Regulations under this section require incidents to be reported only so far as the authority in question has obtained information about them in the performance of its functions.

(7)Regulations under this section may contain provision about the timing, form and contents of reports.