Automated Vehicles Act 2024

41 Notices

(1) The Secretary of State must impose authorisation requirements designed to secure that the Secretary of State has available at all times—

(a) a postal address, and

(b) an electronic address,

which can be used to issue notices under this Part to an authorised self-driving entity.

(2) If the Secretary of State makes operator licensing regulations, the regulations must include provision designed to secure that the Secretary of State has available at all times—

(a) a postal address, and

(b) an electronic address,

which can be used to issue notices under this Part to a licensed no-user-in-charge operator.

(3) A notice issued under this Part to a regulated body is to be taken for the purposes of this Part to be issued at—

(a) the time at which it is received by the regulated body, or

(b) if earlier, the time at which it would in the ordinary course of events be received by the regulated body (taking account of the means by which it is issued).

(4) It is to be assumed for the purposes of subsection (3)(b) that the regulated body will receive a notice sent to an address made available to the Secretary of State further to authorisation requirements or operator licensing regulations or the sort described in subsection (1) or (2).

(5) For the purposes of subsections (3) and (4), a regulated body “receives” a notice when it would first be possible for an individual acting on behalf of the body to view the notice.

(6) In this section, “electronic address” includes any form of information that enables a written electronic communication to be directed to a particular recipient.